[Nauty-list] Issue with geng and showg

[Gunnar Brinkmann]

Brendan McKay wrote:
> geng -n writes output in a binary format based on the internal data
> structure of the graphs. It isn't documented because it is machine
> dependent. I keep it because some legacy software wants it, but one
> day I might take it out.
>   
There are good reasons to keep it for programs that use pipes.
They run on the same machine and coding/decoding is very efficient.

I guess I'm not the only one who would prefer if the option remained in 
geng...

Gunnar

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