[Info-vax] systemd (was Re: openvms and xterm)

[motk]

On 21/04/2024 7:41 pm, Andreas Eder wrote:

> But .INI format is not a classic unix file format and not as easy to
> parse as the real, classic unix file formats. I think of it as an
> abomination.

What? Like sendmail.cf? What are these classic unix file formats? The 
weird not-quite-xml of apache.conf? The weird globbing in crontab? Using 
ALLCAPS=something in some file in sysconfig?

It's good to know where we came from but imagining a perfect past isn't 
a good idea.

> In fact it is easy to do all that if you know how to edit text filesm
> either by hand or with tools like awk or sed.

You have a problem with config over a fleet of files; you edit it with 
regex. Now you have many problems.

> 'Andreas

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motk