In article <1er451INNhe6@gap.caltech.edu> josephc@cco.caltech.edu (Joseph Chiu) writes:
>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...) *
That probably is the case, I always use shutdown, but I close all apps manually before I do. And I don't have a *.ini size problem, my biggest one being
150K. Was wondering why people were having that problem and I wasn't. =)