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		cosmic_cheese 11 months ago \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Blue95: a desktop for your childhood home's comput... It’s not a database, they’re individual files. Most are even plain XML that can be hand written and edited with a text editor.

p_l 11 months ago [–]

This is not a gotcha, really. An XML file can be considered database just as well (similarly, part of registry on NT is portable between machines).

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