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Thomas Flavel:

> *sigh* That's not what I meant at all ;)
>
> Colouring a prompt was just an example; I was trying to portray a system
> whereby everything could be configured from one central datafile... I'll
try
> to explain it again if anybody wants?

Wouldn't this have at least a few of the same drawbacks that the registry in
windows has?  Do things die if this file gets corrupted/accidentally
deleted/severly tweaked?  Or is it another layer?

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