On Mon, 8 Dec 1997, Jim Wise wrote:

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> On Fri, 5 Dec 1997, Matthew Jacob wrote:
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> > >In my best Andy Sipowitz voice: "Anyone dat mentions da NT registry as
> > >a solution for anyting, dat's gonna get yew smacked."
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> > Oh, friggin grow up.... It's just persistent storage of device properties.
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> Any configuration mechanism that cannot be repaired in ed(1) is sick
> and wrong...
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I tend to agree with the principle that ease of maintance is important
and I prefer application configuration to asscoiated with the app
files or stored in config files in an applications resource directory
and not in a central registry. A central data resource for system wide
defaults and configurations is fine as long as long as it can be
maintained from a command line or shell script in single user mode.
 
> Realistically, AIX has just such a mechanism, and it's every bit as much
> a PITA when it gets corrupted.  Ditto for NeXTStep...
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 PITA ??

--Sean