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: 103376,47bc849aad30d586 X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public X-Google-ArrivalTime: 2002-06-01 06:51:33 PST Path: archiver1.google.com!news1.google.com!newsfeed.stanford.edu!news-spur1.maxwell.syr.edu!news.maxwell.syr.edu!uninett.no!ntnu.no!not-for-mail From: Preben Randhol Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Subject: Re: A standard package for config files is needed Date: Sat, 1 Jun 2002 13:51:33 +0000 (UTC) Organization: Norwegian university of science and technology Message-ID: References: <3CF5D7AC.975B0DB3@cs.tu-berlin.de> <4519e058.0205310825.868fe4a@posting.google.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: kiuk0156.chembio.ntnu.no X-Trace: tyfon.itea.ntnu.no 1022939493 8181 129.241.83.82 (1 Jun 2002 13:51:33 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@itea.ntnu.no NNTP-Posting-Date: Sat, 1 Jun 2002 13:51:33 +0000 (UTC) User-Agent: slrn/0.9.7.4 (Linux) Xref: archiver1.google.com comp.lang.ada:25147 Date: 2002-06-01T13:51:33+00:00 List-Id: On Fri, 31 May 2002 13:25:31 -0400, Marin David Condic wrote: > > I just don't see file portability being that big an issue. Certainly not any > more important than the fact that there is no guaranteed portability of > anything you create with any of the other I/O packages. But if you have a program like say Matlab and there is a Windows, Mac and Linux version of this program, wouldn't it be nice if people could use the dumped variables on whatever platform they like to use? I mean one may be working on something and then he wants to have somebody else looking at what he has done, he shouldn't be forced to use the same platform. Or he has Linux on his desktop, but when he travels he has only Windows on the laptop, why shouldn't he be allowed to work with the files he has worked on in Linux (and visa versa) without problem? Preben