At 28.05.96 David Noon squeezed among other things this out of his/her keyboard:

 DN> I tend to agree with Jonathan here. Using a binary .INI format keeps
 DN> grubby little fingers out of places they don't belong. Furthermore,

Why thinking in this terms? O.K., to edit textmode INIs is a bit easier,
but out there are so many INI-Editors that everyone who want's to put his
grubby little fingers in the INIs can do so.

I think there are some more imporant advantages to INI-files. Binary
profiles are more flexible and IMHO easier to use for programmers (also for
the system designers who are responsible for implementing the APIs for the
profile) so errors have little chances to find the way into your code.

Until the next mail...,

Stefan.
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