Plain text files offer some advantages for online applications using changing data. The idea of this series of articles is to explain some of the better tricks for using plain text files, or comma and tab separated lists to support dynamic data sources for the internet. These concepts can be used for Enterprise platform hopping as well as small business needs. A basic premise of this work is that these data files are read-only to the world as typical HTML pages are. This prevents users from altering data and allows 7x24 on-the-fly updating using FTP by publishers.
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