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| author | Rob Austein <sra@hactrn.net> | 2010-04-12 02:35:03 +0000 |
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| committer | Rob Austein <sra@hactrn.net> | 2010-04-12 02:35:03 +0000 |
| commit | 5659f160b7d6468f64ab68a5809322b0c2a122a8 (patch) | |
| tree | 7d0cccaca1a04c2cd14669470e654966ff7e0406 | |
| parent | 066ca6f10bb27f0f7aac2d9760bdc6dc06cad9b9 (diff) | |
Document changes to .csv file format.
svn path=/myrpki.rototill/README; revision=3178
| -rw-r--r-- | myrpki.rototill/README | 18 |
1 files changed, 5 insertions, 13 deletions
diff --git a/myrpki.rototill/README b/myrpki.rototill/README index 3359032a..ac80a3d3 100644 --- a/myrpki.rototill/README +++ b/myrpki.rototill/README @@ -86,19 +86,11 @@ still others of which are for the various RPKI daemon programs. The examples/ subdirectory contains a commented version of the configuration file that explains the various parameters. -The .csv files read by myrpki can be anything that the Python "csv" -library understands. By default, they're in tab-delimited format -(because the author finds this easier to read than the comma-delimited -format), but this can be changed to fit local needs. - -Please note: tab-delimited CSV is a format defined by a certain -popular spreadsheet program, and is *not* the same as -whitespace-separated text. Tab characters are *punctuation*, and each -tab character indicates the division between two columns. Two tab -characters in a row indicates a separator, a blank cell, and another -separator, not one separator. The upshot of all this is that -attempting to make your columns line up prettily will not work as you -expect, you will end up with too many cells, some of them empty. +The .csv files read by myrpki are (now) misnamed: formerly, they were +the "excel-tab" format from the Python csv library, but early users +kept trying to make the colums line up, which didn't do what the users +expected. So now these files are just whitespace-delimted, as a +program like "awk" would understand. Keep reading, and don't panic. |