Pointless, except for the thing that nomuse mentions: It's far easier to change mapping and make other minor edits in something that has external obj's. Besides, as svdl clearly showed, there's nothing difficult in doing it (or for people even more lazy, such as myself, there's PWizard who, among other things, has a built in obj-ripper to do the dirty work G)

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