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- From: ochealth@unixg.ubc.ca (ochealth)
- Newsgroups: comp.os.os2.misc
- Subject: Re: Growing os2sys.ini
- Date: 23 Nov 1992 00:06:47 GMT
- Organization: University of British Columbia, Vancouver, B.C., Canada
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- References: <8f3y5Ia00iUxQ2dlwD@andrew.cmu.edu> <1992Nov22.213440.8703@abo.fi>
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- In article <1992Nov22.213440.8703@abo.fi> CBURMAN@FINABO.ABO.FI (Chris Burman) writes:
- :In <8f3y5Ia00iUxQ2dlwD@andrew.cmu.edu> cj00+@andrew.cmu.edu writes:
- :
- :> Well, I've been hit by this. I don't know why it's growing though. Two
- :> days ago, it was at small, and very constant 450k. At that point, I was
- :> using 1024x768x256 Trident drivers, and therefore, no seamless windows.
- :> So, just to try out Seamless, I went to the 800x600x16 seamless Trident
- :> Drivers. I started playing with seamless by running Word for Windows
- :> 2.0, Excel 3.0, and Afterdark 1.0. Now, in two days, my os2sys.ini has
- :> grown to more than 2 megs! Can Seamless be what's causing the problems?
- :> That partition is now down to 6,653 bytes free!
- :> I know that I can just use copyini.exe to shrink it, but I don't want to
- :> do that every two days of use! Should I stop using seamless?
- :
- :No, it's not the seamless drivers. I'm using the non-seamless Trident
- :800x600x256 drivers, and my ini file grows like the budget deficit. (I
- :shrank it with one of the inicopiers yesterday, but I'm at 950k already...)
- :
- :Trident? You're using Trident drivers? Anybody else with Trident 800x600
- :drivers and growing ini files out there?
-
- I have the dreaded growing os2sys.ini problem. I was using the Trident drivers
- for a while, then back to standard VGA, and now back to Trident 800x600x16
- seamless. All had the sys.ini bulge, so I don't know if the drivers are to
- blame.
-
- :
- :> Thanks a lot.
- :> Carl Jabido
- :> cj00@cmu.edu
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