On Wed, Mar 10, 1999 at 04:44:00PM +0100, Olaf Seibert wrote:
> 
> Perhaps it is useful to make the lines in the file semi-fixed format: if
> the values change, they will stay in the same seek offsets. This may
> require padding with zeros or spaces of course. You may try to determine
> the required space at boot time, or you could be lazy and just reserve
> "plenty" and just always pad.

  This could definitely be done.  If we want to keep it
source-able by sh, though, all padding will have to be done at
the end of a line, which means sprintf won't cut it.

  Brian