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From: gautier_niouzes@hotmail.com (Gautier)
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Subject: Re: A standard package for config files is needed
Date: 30 May 2002 07:45:29 -0700
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Al:

> If you are running under Windows and you don't want to use the Windows
> API, you should not use *.ini file names.  Windows assumes that you
> won't muck with ini files except through the Windows API's.

Are you sure of it ? My impression is that Windows lets the .ini files
in peace, unless the program using the .ini uses the Windows API for I/O
- like any other text file!
If you search for "*.ini" files on your PC, the concerned files often
don't have the "Windows" format. Many of them are Free Software developped
on other systems or before Windows supremacy: (La)TeX, for example.
A nearer counter-example: AdaGIDE. It reads & writes its .ini bravely
with Ada.Text_IO.
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