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In message <4256FF84.20008@criticalmagic.com>, Richard Coleman writes:

>But I think the general idea was that any ad hoc protocol will generally 
>suck, whether it is binary or ascii.

I'm not arguing for an ad-hoc protocol, I'm perfectly fine with us
standardizing the format, either traditional unix ("something-separated")
or XML and then have a generic routine to format it in userland.

I'm sort of partial to simple whitespace format with headerlines 
starting with '#', it just looks right for some reason... :-)

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