In article <o0tatd$1kdp$2 at gioia.aioe.org>, Chris <xxx.syseng.yyy at gfsys.co.uk> writes: > > Sounds a bit obfustication to me, when all that should be needed > is a simple manually editable text file. Why make it more complicated > than it needs to be ?... Performance? Maintainability? Usefull error messages?