On Fri, Mar 16, 2007 at 10:05:25PM +0100, Joe Hart wrote: > > What is the point of having all info stored in plain text files if one > > is supposed to only use tools to edit them? They might as well be > > binary. Or is it perhaps so other tools can easily read them? > > I still would like to hear your answer (or anyone else's opinion) to > this however. companies like MS have binary files. These are not human editable thus you have no choice. From my experiece, Most files that have debian tools, have a basic sceanario where you use a tool to edit them up until a cetain point. Past that, its up to you to take over. But when I upgrade certain things like my exim4, I use the diff option to see what changed, then I edit the $FILE.new and add my changed based upon the $FILE, then I finish and I can add my changes to the new file. -- | .''`. == Debian GNU/Linux == | my web site: | | : :' : The Universal |mysite.verizon.net/kevin.mark/| | `. `' Operating System | go to counter.li.org and | | `- http://www.debian.org/ | be counted! #238656 | | my keyserver: subkeys.pgp.net | my NPO: cfsg.org | |join the new debian-community.org to help Debian! |
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