Can htaccess include another file?

Hi,

I want to achieve something like this. Imagine I have a file called
textfile_ips.txt which contains a whole bunch of IP addresses which I want
to blocked, one per line. Can I do something like this?

<Files "somefile.html">
deny from textfile_ips.txt
</Files>

Obviously the above won't work. I have a PHP script which is adding new IP's
to the text file, and I don't want it to edit the htaccess file in case it
screws something up, and so I can also setup a cron job to delete the
blocked IP's at the start of each day...

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djc

I've noticed that RewriteMap might help but unfortunately that doesn't work
with .htaccess.

I've come up with the following solution. I am using PHP to append a new
line "deny from x.x.x.x" with the IP address to a .htaccess file in my
download folder. That way I can purge or reset the file when it is no longer
needed easily.

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djc