I must be missing something

2005-03-23 Thread Shachar Shemesh
There is no other explanation. Just about every free program on Linux keeps a configuration file in /etc. They all fairly much carry the same format. It simply defies logic that there would be no standard library to read this configuration file in. Anyone? Shachar -- Shachar Shemesh

Re: I must be missing something

2005-03-23 Thread Diego Iastrubni
Shachar Shemesh wrote: There is no other explanation. Just about every free program on Linux keeps a configuration file in /etc. They all fairly much carry the same format. It simply defies logic that there would be no standard library to read this configuration file in. Anyone?

Re: I must be missing something

2005-03-23 Thread Nadav Har'El
On Wed, Mar 23, 2005, Shachar Shemesh wrote about I must be missing something: There is no other explanation. Just about every free program on Linux keeps a configuration file in /etc. They all fairly much carry the same format. It simply defies logic that there would be no standard

Re: I must be missing something

2005-03-23 Thread Shaul Karl
On Wed, Mar 23, 2005 at 07:46:24PM +0200, Shachar Shemesh wrote: There is no other explanation. Just about every free program on Linux keeps a configuration file in /etc. They all fairly much carry the same format. It simply defies logic that there would be no standard library to read this

Re: I must be missing something

2005-03-23 Thread Yedidyah Bar-David
On Wed, Mar 23, 2005 at 09:09:01PM +0200, Shaul Karl wrote: On Wed, Mar 23, 2005 at 07:46:24PM +0200, Shachar Shemesh wrote: There is no other explanation. Just about every free program on Linux keeps a configuration file in /etc. They all fairly much carry the same format. It simply

Re: I must be missing something

2005-03-23 Thread Shachar Shemesh
Shaul Karl wrote: On Wed, Mar 23, 2005 at 07:46:24PM +0200, Shachar Shemesh wrote: There is no other explanation. Just about every free program on Linux keeps a configuration file in /etc. They all fairly much carry the same format. It simply defies logic that there would be no standard

Re: I must be missing something

2005-03-23 Thread Nadav Har'El
On Wed, Mar 23, 2005, Yedidyah Bar-David wrote about Re: I must be missing something: Does this standard library exists on other OSs? As was already mentioned, the Windows Registry. As far as I know, there are few such attempts also in various Unices. Some of them even became

Re: I must be missing something

2005-03-23 Thread Shachar Shemesh
Nadav Har'El wrote: One major difference in philosophy between the Windows registry and the Unix /etc is that the former was never ever meant to be manually read or modified by users, and the latter was mainly intended for manual modification. Don't get me wrong. Not for one second. I will not

Configuration files (was: Re: I must be missing something)

2005-03-23 Thread Omer Zak
On Wed, 2005-03-23 at 23:28 +0200, Shachar Shemesh wrote: Shaul Karl wrote: On Wed, Mar 23, 2005 at 07:46:24PM +0200, Shachar Shemesh wrote: There is no other explanation. Just about every free program on Linux keeps a configuration file in /etc. They all fairly much carry the same

Re: I must be missing something

2005-03-23 Thread Amit Aronovitch
Shachar Shemesh wrote: Just about every free program on Linux keeps a configuration file in /etc. They all fairly much carry the same format. It simply defies logic that there would be no standard library to read this configuration file in. "The nice thing about standards is that there