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- From: josephc@cco.caltech.edu (Joseph Chiu)
- Newsgroups: comp.os.os2.apps
- Subject: Growing OS2SYS.INI probable cause?
- Date: 23 Nov 1992 17:24:49 GMT
- Organization: California Institute of Technology, Pasadena
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- I just got off the phone with IBM trying to get a handle on why there is
- an LPT1: conflict with one of my programs. (It appears to be a vestige
- of dongle code that was somehow left in the product... It isn't supposed
- to need a dongle, though...)
-
- Anways, I offhandedly mentioned my OS2SYS.INI growth to the tech on the
- line and he asked: "Do you leave apps open when you shut down?"
-
- According to him, that will cause the growth of the OS2SYS.INI... According
- to what he said, OS/2 preserves the "state" of the system at shutdown,
- thus causing the growth of the INI file. If apps are closed prior to
- shutdown, this is not supposed to happen.
-
- This sounds plausible. I'm going to test this theory out over the next
- few days... It certainly explains the increased disk access during
- shutdowns.
-
-
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- Joseph Chiu, Dept. of Computer Science, Caltech. josephc@coil.caltech.edu
- 1-57 California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, CA 91126. +1 818 449 5457
- * Now running OS/2, Windows, DOS, and UNIX (okay, well, maybe not...) *
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