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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.