"Colin B." <cbigam@somewhereelse.nucleus.com> wrote in message
news:428129e5@news.nucleus.com...
> But I understand the feeling. One of the core features of Unix has always
> been "everything in plaintext, wherever possible." Seeing the horrible
> disaster that was the Windows Registry and similarly the AIX ODM (which I
> understand is at least usable now), convinced me even more that this was a
> good and necessary thing.

Isn't SMF actually based on XML description files? (Correct me if I'm
wrong).

XML *is* just plain text. With the advantage that it is a structured
document so it's easy to understand and manage by both a human and a
machine.

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Andrea Sansottera