On Tue, 9 Dec 1997, Matthew Jacob wrote:

> 
> 
> Sure. In some sense this is what the termcap format was about, and also
> the .ini format. Don't get me wrong I *don't* want binary information
> you can't easily modify- anyone who lived through Sun's NSE environment
> can tell you about that. However, billyuns of little conf files strewn
> all over the place each with a different format is just the wrong thing
> to do. I don't believe BSD folks see this that strongly- all current
> flavors of *BSD don't seem to really go overboard this way like either
> SVr4 or Solaris or RedHat linux.
> 
> 

I still feel that seperate conf files should be used for unrelated
configuration. If you have two seperate apps then they should have two
sperate conf files. You may want to try and define standard format for
these sorts of files and an inheretance machanism for more common
settings though.

-Sean