[Info-vax] VI* on VMS

[Simon Clubley]

On 2024-10-22, Lawrence D'Oliveiro <ldo at nz.invalid> wrote:
> On Tue, 22 Oct 2024 17:42:46 -0500, John H. Reinhardt wrote:
>
>> Adding a file to Startup -
>> http://www.rlgsc.com/blog/openvms-consultant/adding-file-to-startup.html
>
> I stopped reading at ?keyed RMS files?.
>
> systemd conforms to the *nix tradition of using plain-text-based config 
> files: in this case, the classic .INI file format that was pioneered by 
> Microsoft (or was it IBM?) before being jettisoned in favour of that 
> steaming, fetid mess that is the Windows Registry.

You mean the .INI file structure that has no concept of a list of "things"
or a custom data structure so that you have to list the same key more than
once in a systemd config file when you need to build a list structure ?

And before you go into denial about that:

See https://www.freedesktop.org/software/systemd/man/latest/systemd.syntax.html

|Various settings are allowed to be specified more than once, in which case
|the interpretation depends on the setting. Often, multiple settings form a
|list, and setting to an empty value "resets", which means that previous
|assignments are ignored. When this is allowed, it is mentioned in the
|description of the setting. Note that using multiple assignments to the
|same value makes the file incompatible with parsers for the XDG .desktop
|file format.

YUCK!!!

Simon.

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