Sorry about your bad day. If I were in your shoes I wouldn't worry about this for a second. I only asked the question because people frequently ask whether my program violates Blizzard's rules, so I'm getting into the extremely regrettable habit of viewing everything through the prism of Blizzard's Terms of Use. Not because I think you should worry about it, but because I need to. People have asked me to add a feature to my program that can modify WoW's config file, so it has been on my mind recently.

I shouldn't have inserted this question into your thread. It popped into my head and I posted without thinking. My apologies.

I agree with you completely that Blizzard's interpretation of these words is the only one that matters. Nonetheless I have to start by reading them myself because there's no other place to start, and I can't help interpreting them differently than you do because to me a config file is very much part of the program whose data it contains. As a programmer it would never occur to me that it's not. So I'm wondering if Blizzard ever said anything about this explicitly.

Thanks for the link to that Linux thread. That's a good bit of evidence that some Blizzard employees, at least, thought that TOS 4.B. doesn't apply to the config file.

I'm not sure about Maximizer. I just looked at its source code and I don't see anything in there that reads or writes the config file, but maybe I'm missing it.