On Sat, 6 Feb 1999, Craig Sanders wrote: > > I personally think the space delimeted style of fstab and friends looks > > better, but if I can get away with not having to write this, I'm not > > going to complain too much however it ends up. :) > > using : or spaces/tabs doesn't make much difference to me. if : is a > problem for future compatibility with ipv6 then i'll switch to spaces.
Erm, but : is a standard for ports! Like http://foo.bar:80/ If someone decides to use :'s for IPv6 address seperation then all sorts of nasty stuff breaks. Jason