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Subject: Re: CS551: Final Project
Date: Fri, 03 Oct 2008 13:44:58 -0700
From: Bill Cheng <william@bourbon.usc.edu>

Someone wrote:

  > in the spec we have :
  > 
  > "Please note that it is perfectly okay to have additional additional keys or
  > sections in a start-up configuration file. Your program must not report them
  > as errors. "
  > 
  > Can you please explain what this specification means ?

If the startup configuration files looks like:

    [init]
    Port=12345
    Location=67890
    HomeDir=/tmp/n00
    AutoShutdown=10
    LunchTime=12

    [beacons]
    nunki.usc.edu:18000=

Your program can print a warning message such as:

    Warning: unrecognized key "LunchTime" in startup configuration file.

But your program must not quit.
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Bill Cheng // bill.cheng@usc.edu <URL:http://merlot.usc.edu/william/usc/>