No and you actually do use them. The only way not have them, is to not use FP.
FP need these on your local machine in order to manage the content within your web. They are never
publish between machines/locations. If the remote server has the FP extensions, then the extensions
on the remote server will create them as needed.
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Thomas A. Rowe (Microsoft MVP - FrontPage)
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