Re: VI* on VMS

On 2024-10-22, Lawrence D'Oliveiro <ldo@nz.invalid> wrote:

On Tue, 22 Oct 2024 17:42:46 -0500, John H. Reinhardt wrote:
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Adding a file to Startup -
http://www.rlgsc.com/blog/openvms-consultant/adding-file-to-startup.html

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I stopped reading at ?keyed RMS files?.
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systemd conforms to the *nix tradition of using plain-text-based config
files: in this case, the classic .INI file format that was pioneered by
Microsoft (or was it IBM?) before being jettisoned in favour of that
steaming, fetid mess that is the Windows Registry.

You mean the .INI file structure that has no concept of a list of "things"
or a custom data structure so that you have to list the same key more than
once in a systemd config file when you need to build a list structure ?

And before you go into denial about that:

See https://www.freedesktop.org/software/systemd/man/latest/systemd.syntax.html

|Various settings are allowed to be specified more than once, in which case
|the interpretation depends on the setting. Often, multiple settings form a
|list, and setting to an empty value "resets", which means that previous
|assignments are ignored. When this is allowed, it is mentioned in the
|description of the setting. Note that using multiple assignments to the
|same value makes the file incompatible with parsers for the XDG .desktop
|file format.

YUCK!!!

Simon.

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