I see a lot of scripts that spit data out in the classic Windows INI format. Why is this done? Do you read the data in a special program or database? What're the pros of spitting data out in INI format vs something like one big tab delimited file?

I'm doing a hardware/software inventory pretty soon and I'm wondering how I should output the data so that I can read it. I was going to do 1 tab delimited file per workstation and then concactinate them all into one file and suck it into Access. But that makes for one hell of a long WRITELINE line. The INI output seems more attractive, but I don't know how I'd get it into a database.

Thanks.