Excellent point. All the more notable when you consider that Poser began in the era of 144 KB floppies and 10 MB hard disks. Back then, tight binary files with minimum redundancy were the only way to get any serious work done. The original Poser programmers must have been nearly clairvoyant to stick with readable, redundant and "insecure" text files in that situation.

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