From owner-freebsd-chat Sat Oct 11 01:52:09 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) id BAA09155 for chat-outgoing; Sat, 11 Oct 1997 01:52:09 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-chat) Received: from sax.sax.de (sax.sax.de [193.175.26.33]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) with SMTP id BAA09150 for ; Sat, 11 Oct 1997 01:52:06 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from j@uriah.heep.sax.de) Received: (from uucp@localhost) by sax.sax.de (8.6.12/8.6.12-s1) with UUCP id KAA00597 for chat@freebsd.org; Sat, 11 Oct 1997 10:52:04 +0200 Received: (from j@localhost) by uriah.heep.sax.de (8.8.7/8.8.5) id HAA16271; Sat, 11 Oct 1997 07:59:27 +0200 (MET DST) Message-ID: <19971011075927.ZV28494@uriah.heep.sax.de> Date: Sat, 11 Oct 1997 07:59:27 +0200 From: j@uriah.heep.sax.de (J Wunsch) To: chat@freebsd.org Subject: Re: password question References: <199710100336.VAA02922@obie.softweyr.ml.org> <19971010074813.WR25496@uriah.heep.sax.de> <199710110521.XAA04268@obie.softweyr.ml.org> X-Mailer: Mutt 0.60_p2-3,5,8-9 Mime-Version: 1.0 X-Phone: +49-351-2012 669 X-PGP-Fingerprint: DC 47 E6 E4 FF A6 E9 8F 93 21 E0 7D F9 12 D6 4E Reply-To: joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de (Joerg Wunsch) In-Reply-To: <199710110521.XAA04268@obie.softweyr.ml.org>; from Wes Peters on Oct 10, 1997 23:21:58 -0600 Sender: owner-freebsd-chat@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk As Wes Peters wrote: > Gee, my memory was pretty good. I used to have nightmares about these > things, until I sat down one day and wrote a "stanza parser" for our > library. That made me appreciate how and why they did it the way they > did. I think such a parser would be fairly small in Perl. :) The only odd thing with their stanzas was that they have one file (forgot which one) where the same key could appear twice. The meaning was then dependent on the context (which is an ugly thing to do in a database-like configuration file). -- cheers, J"org joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de -- http://www.sax.de/~joerg/ -- NIC: JW11-RIPE Never trust an operating system you don't have sources for. ;-)