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From: Coranth Gryphon <gryphon@healer.com>
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>From owner-freebsd-hackers@freefall.freebsd.org Tue Sep 26 02:02:06 1995
From: peter@taronga.com (Peter da Silva)
Subject: Re: ports startup scripts
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Date: Tue, 26 Sep 1995 00:08:24 -0500 (CDT)
In-Reply-To: <199509260343.XAA14628@healer.com> from "Coranth Gryphon" at Sep 25, 95 11:43:33 pm
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> +> It's not that SysV confuses me, it's that I think it is a LOUSY DESIGN.
> +> Personal opinion, which is a matter of a lot of experience. I've been

> Argument from authority?
> I've been doing it for 15 years, including working on the 4.1C and 4.2 BSD
> distributions, and I *hate* anything that depends on editing config files

No, re-assertion that it ia a matter of personal preference. I'm not
telling you what to like or dislike...

> The only system I've seen that has worked with autoedited files... and
> this will really make you cringe... is Microsoft Windows. Their config

Since we are going with what works... :-)

Actually, the samba config files have the exact same format as the
MS-Windows config files. It is a well-known and simple format.

-coranth

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