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Date:      Mon, 26 Mar 2001 15:25:49 -0500
From:      Garance A Drosihn <drosih@rpi.edu>
To:        "Jonathan Graehl" <jonathan@graehl.org>
Cc:        "freebsd-Arch" <freebsd-arch@FreeBSD.ORG>
Subject:   RE: configuration files, XML, Mac OS X release
Message-ID:  <p05010401b6e555e38f12@[128.113.24.47]>
In-Reply-To: <NCBBLOALCKKINBNNEDDLKECIDNAA.jonathan@graehl.org>
References:  <NCBBLOALCKKINBNNEDDLKECIDNAA.jonathan@graehl.org>

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At 10:35 AM -0800 3/26/01, Jonathan Graehl wrote:
>  > Applications query the same "defaults database" for their
>>  preferences.  So you could type a 'defaults' command in
>>  one window, and the application will see that the next
>>  time it checks (probably the next time the application
>>  is started).  No need to log out and back in.
>
>... like the Windows Registry ;) (duck)


No.  More like the defaults database on nextstep, which was
running about five years before Windows95 saw the light of
day.

It's always amusing when people claim MacOS 10 is stealing
something from Windows, when those very things existed in
NeXTSTEP before Windows was shipping.

But now we have digressed...

-- 
Garance Alistair Drosehn            =   gad@eclipse.acs.rpi.edu
Senior Systems Programmer           or  gad@freebsd.org
Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute    or  drosih@rpi.edu

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