Mike Leone on Tue, 19 Sep 2000 11:10:54 -0400 (EDT)


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Re: [PLUG] apt-get / rpm freshmeat article


>At 10:32 AM -0400 9/19/00, Michael W. Ryan wrote:
>>The standard means for configuration on a Win32 system (Windows 95,
>>Windows 98, Windows NT 4.0 and Windows 2000) is via a graphical interface.
>
>	The "standard means" yes, but not the only means - which was 
>part of the discussion (as I understood it).  And just as the 
>"default" means of configuration on Linux is also via a "GUI", but 
>you can fall back to text - so it is on Windows.

Hmmmm ...  not for the vast majority of APPLICATIONS (at least, in my experience). For instance, MS Office (any of the components) don't have any .INI files (well ... they might make a small use out of some of the entires in WIN.INI or SYSTEM.INI, altho I doubt even that, but there's no WORD.INI, EXCEL.INI, etc). And most of the real nuts-and-bolts tuning of the OS is done in the registry, via the GUI interface. Yes, you can IMPORT the registry settings that you want from a text file that you write - is that what you mean, Len?



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