From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.4.4 (2020-01-24) on polar.synack.me X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-1.9 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_00 autolearn=ham autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: 103376,7624df5e57d09688 X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public X-Google-ArrivalTime: 2002-06-07 02:02:38 PST Path: archiver1.google.com!news1.google.com!sn-xit-02!sn-post-01!supernews.com!corp.supernews.com!not-for-mail From: Jason King Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Subject: Re: config files proposal Date: Fri, 07 Jun 2002 04:01:49 -0500 Organization: Posted via Supernews, http://www.supernews.com Message-ID: <3D00767D.9020100@airmail.net> User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.0; en-US; rv:1.0rc3) Gecko/20020523 X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 References: <3CFF15E7.9A697B40@cs.tu-berlin.de> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Complaints-To: newsabuse@supernews.com Xref: archiver1.google.com comp.lang.ada:25438 Date: 2002-06-07T04:01:49-05:00 List-Id: A few thoughts on windows .ini style. 1) The separator for value and key is '=' not ':='. If we use an .ini file it should not break .ini file conventions. 2) Standard .ini files use ';' as a comment to eol indicator, e.g. ; this is a comment [section] real1=val1 ;real2=oldval2 real2=val2 Read/Write functions should ignore the lines that start with a ';'. Volkert wrote: > Volkert Barr wrote in message news:<3CFF15E7.9A697B40@cs.tu-berlin.de>... > >>I have also set up a small document. > > > An updated version can be downloaded! > > >>Hints and suggestions should be mailed to me >>(barr@cs.tu-berlin.de) and not to c.l.a. I try to canalize >>them and send updates to c.l.a. for further discussion. >> >>See at: http://swt.cs.tu-berlin.de/~barr/config_package.pdf >> >> >>Volkert >