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- From: bharris@hfglobe.intel.com (Bennie Harris)
- Subject: Re: Growing os2sys.ini
- Message-ID: <By5oKC.2xu@hfglobe.intel.com>
- Organization: Intel Corporation
- References: <8f3y5Ia00iUxQ2dlwD@andrew.cmu.edu> <1992Nov22.213440.8703@abo.fi>
- Date: Mon, 23 Nov 1992 06:26:35 GMT
- Lines: 32
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- 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?
-
- >> Thanks a lot.
- >> Carl Jabido
- >> cj00@cmu.edu
-
- I'am using Orchid Pro IIs standard vga drivers with a growing
- os2sys.ini problem. So I doubt that it is related to the Trident
- dribers. In case you have not been made aware of it, IBM has
- an APAR number for this problem. That number is PJ06759.
-
- -- Bennie Harris
-