Date: Tue, 26 Sep 1995 07:28:25 -0500 (CDT) From: peter@taronga.com (Peter da Silva) To: hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: ports startup scripts Message-ID: <199509261228.HAA08127@bonkers.taronga.com> In-Reply-To: <199509260728.DAA16029@healer.com> from "Coranth Gryphon" at Sep 26, 95 03:28:44 am
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> > The only system I've seen that has worked with autoedited files... and > > this will really make you cringe... is Microsoft Windows. Their config > Actually, the samba config files have the exact same format as the > MS-Windows config files. It is a well-known and simple format. Since Samba is designed to interface with Microsoft Windows, that's not surprising. I really hate the conceptual integrity problems in the INI files. NAME = VALUE NAME = NEW-VALUE In every other "language" in computer science this would be equivalent to NAME = NEW-VALUE But because of them discovering after the fact that they needed to sequence events, it may or may not be. This violates the principle of least surprise.
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