[sork] vacation program db formats

[Eric Rostetter]

Quoting Chuck Hagenbuch <chuck@horde.org>:

> Random thought... is there a reason you need /dev/null, and not, say, touch
> ()? Because touch() would work fine for someone on windows, and /dev/null 
> wouldn't...

Removing /dev/null has been on my internal todo list for a while, though I
really had no idea what to do instead, but there are many options...

The new thread implies that maybe providing default files in the distribution
is the way to go.  It would just copy the appropriate file then.  In this
case it should work on any platform as long as there is an appropriate file
provided.  No no /dev/null, no touch, just some files to copy...

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