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From: Preben Randhol <randhol+abuse@pvv.org>
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Subject: Re: A standard package for config files is needed
Date: Mon, 3 Jun 2002 06:24:50 +0000 (UTC)
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On Mon, 03 Jun 2002 01:00:02 GMT, Robert I. Eachus wrote:
> Sounds like a good idea, but why all the sound and fury?  This is what 
> the IFF (Interchange File Format) was designed to do.  Requiring simple 

Huh? IFF used to be a image file format for Amigas.

> http://www.concentric.net/~Bradds/iff.html)

besides it looks 100 times worse to hand-edit than XML.

Preben