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Re: `du' control files



[You (Manoj Srivastava)]
>Hi,
>
>	Until we have a tool, I do not think we can determine the
> input format for such a tool. Packaging files that could possibly be
> the input for an as yet unwritten tool (we are not clairvoyant, are
> we now?) is slightly silly.

I have to heartily agree with Manoj.  It's a fundamental tenet in data 
quality analysis that data *use* should drive data collection, not vice 
versa.  So until we really find how we need this file, how we use it, we 
shouldn't bother collecting the data.

.....A. P. Harris...apharris@onShore.com...<URL:http://www.onShore.com/>


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