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Re: cfgtool 1.0 -- alea iacta est



On Fri, 11 Oct 1996, Miquel van Smoorenburg wrote:

> I'd like to source the file directly in a shell script, or parse it
> with a perl script, or whatever.

That should be discouraged for the same reason that looking into
/var/lib/dpkg is discouraged - your program would break if cfgtool
internals changed.


Guy

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