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On Sun, Sep 30, 2007 at 12:04:58PM -0500, Mark Rages wrote:
> > Anyway, if I'm not going to convince him, at least I might convince our
> > bosses why I think he is completely insane. RFC's just might help build
> > my case. I've got a nice list of every internet protocol I could find
> > using this design, but a meta-document would be even nicer.
> >
> 
> The Art of Unix Programming (google for it) probably has a few words
> to say about this.

Ahh, good idea. I'm a big fan of that book, first read it years ago, but
it's been long enough I didn't even think of it.

> Anyone who has used Unix for a while will appreciate the simple
> usefulness of human-readable, line oriented formats.   In fact, if you
> are on a Unix system, you will find a whole set of tools designed to
> work on your format.

Exactly. Like when I got a new laptop and was able to make sure I had
all my old programs available so I could set them up properly off-line
with a simple:

cat /var/lib/something/packages | cut -f " " -n 1 > packages
scp ... ...
cat packages-installed-on-old-laptop | xargs -n 1 apt-get install

(form memory obviously)

5 minutes of work to figure it out vs. 30 minutes trying to figure out
which of the dozen "system configuration mover" utilities to even try to
use. :)

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