| From: | Anders Bolager |
| Date: | 26 Sep 2000 at 03:29:37 |
| Subject: | Re: [Re: AMIOPEN: GUI Standardization] |
What if one of these binary config. files is hindering your system to boot,
and the COFEE (with all support tools etc.) doesn't fit on the repair /
rescue disk?
I thought Windows tought you that a binary config file or database system is
the main
reason people have to reinstall the whole OS, and then reinstall /
configure all apps thereafter, whenever something breaks.
On 20-Sep-00, Stephen Lee wrote:
> Juan, the COFEE editor concept for config files has some real merit and
> functional uses.
>
> Stephen/Initium7
>
> "Juan Carlos Marcos Rodr�guez" <jcmarcos@datavoice.es> wrote:
> From: Rafael Vicar�a Alloza <rafael.vicaria@ibm.net>
>
>> *all* configuration files should be ASCII, so humans can read
>> and understand it. No exceptions.
>
> Or, all configuration files could use a binary format, and only one tool
> to edit them all. There could be advantages, like being impossible to make
> syntax mistakes, and with some work, the universal config file editor
> (COFEE 8^) could provide a tree structure to see settings for all
> programs, swap them quickly for testing purposes, take care to notify
> applications that use them, and functions to copy and paste blocks,
> automate backups and the like. Now, if someone thinks I'm talking Windows
> registry here, perhaps that's the idea, only better. What do you think?
>
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Anders
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