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- From: bharris@hfglobe.intel.com (Bennie Harris)
- Subject: Re: Growing os2sys.ini
- Message-ID: <By5onE.2z9@hfglobe.intel.com>
- Organization: Intel Corporation
- References: <8f3y5Ia00iUxQ2dlwD@andrew.cmu.edu> <1992Nov22.213440.8703@abo.fi> <1ep7anINNeq3@iskut.ucs.ubc.ca>
- Date: Mon, 23 Nov 1992 06:28:26 GMT
- Lines: 42
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- ochealth@unixg.ubc.ca (ochealth) writes:
-
- >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
-
-
- >--
- >______________________________________________________________________________
- >jpm: ochealth@unixg.ubc.ca
- > Happily using OS/2 2.0 because MS Windows isNT ___
- > Insert VapourFeature ^^^
- I have the growing os2sys.ini problem with Orchid vga.
-
- -- Bennie Harris
-