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Alan M Webb wrote:
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<font face="sans-serif" size="2">I think that's a great idea. I was
pondering
it myself; I think the code generated file approach is absolutely the
wrong
way to do it.</font>
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<font face="sans-serif" size="2">Given the merging capabilities of
the
config mechanisms couldn't we set it up to merge startup.ini (if it
exists)
after the example .ini? That way we would get overrides if they exist,
and defaults if they don't without doing any conditional copying or
munging
of files. The startup.ini can then be written out by the config
mechanism
if it didn't already exist, or if the configuration has been changed.</font>
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that sounds like a rather good idea!<br>
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cheers, <br>
dirk<br>
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dr dirk husemann, mathmatics and computer science, ibm zurich research lab
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