ntpq: cruft/doc

Hal Murray hmurray at megapathdsl.net
Sun Oct 16 16:18:44 UTC 2016


esr at thyrsus.com said:
> About CSV, while I'm not opposed to it we have a practice guideline to use
> JSON for machine-parseable output. One reason is that JSON is better at
> being self-describing - the field names give you clues that CSV doesn't. 

CSV is readable by eye without a lot of effort.  JSON is close to encrypted.

Many CSV files have a comment line on top with the field names.


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