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Darren New <dnew@san.rr.com> writes:

> Oh, I should also comment that if you're *not* going to follow the windows
> .ini file format, chances are the default extension shouldn't be ".ini". :-)

note that on Unix, the notion of "file extension" is not built in to
the file system as it is on Windows. So I think the API should make no
mention of "file extension".

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