[JDEV] client "proposal" addendum

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Date: Sun, 12 Sep 1999 01:32:24 EDT
From: Jerrad Pierce <belg4mit>

>(though my inclination would be to write a client that can handle both...)
>[Daniel]
Yes well, some believe in the UN*X mantra of do one thing and do it well.

>have a recommended format to store these in, but if we're going to,
>it should be exceedingly simple. I suggest userid, password, and
>server one after the other separated with a specific character (say,
>semicolon) in a specific order (say, userid;server;password), with
>[Draco]
Well both the XML and variable=value formats are IMHO simple, and
intuitive/self-documenting... If you want something compact and 
unintuitive similar to your suggestion, go with the ftp standard
user:pass at server

Of course there's the minor matter ofescaping the delimiting char's in any of
these formats
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