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- From: ochealth@unixg.ubc.ca (ochealth)
- Newsgroups: comp.os.os2.misc
- Subject: Re: copyini vs cpyini
- Date: 23 Nov 1992 08:04:55 GMT
- Organization: University of British Columbia, Vancouver, B.C., Canada
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- Message-ID: <1eq3b7INNg4b@iskut.ucs.ubc.ca>
- References: <10027@blue.cis.pitt.edu.UUCP> <10028@blue.cis.pitt.edu.UUCP> <1992Nov22.213113.1978@midway.uchicago.edu>
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- Keywords: OS2SYS.INI file size growing
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- In article <1992Nov22.213113.1978@midway.uchicago.edu> sip1@midway.uchicago.edu writes:
- :In article <10028@blue.cis.pitt.edu.UUCP> djbpitt+@pitt.edu (David J Birnbaum) writes:
- :>>The cpyini program that I an d (I suspect) most people are using is the
- :>>one in the hobbes uploads directory, which does not have a companion program.
- :>>In my opinion, it is much easier to use than the checkini/copyini programs
- :>>which have been around for quite some time now.
- :>I just checked this out. Except for the name change (copyini.exe vs
- :>cpyini.exe), these files seem identical (date, time, size, and look and
- :>feel). How can one be easier than the other? One less letter to type in
- :>the filename? :-)
- :
- :While we're on the subject of the massively growing INI file, and
- :after apparently ruling out DeskPic as the culprit, is there anyone
- :NOT using 4OS2 who suffers from the problem? (In other words, shall
- :4OS2 be nominated as the culprit?)
-
- I am using 4OS/2 and I have the os2sys.ini bug, but 4OS/2 is not the culprit.
-
- The WPS shell is buggy, and I can cause the os2sys.ini to grow at will, to
- demonstrate the bug. For me, anyway, all I have to do is open up the
- Settings menu for a desktop object, and change a few things. Then within
- a few seconds it hits the disk, and if I keep checking os2sys.ini I can
- see that it grew. I can then try another object, and then os2sys.ini
- grows by 40kb. If I change the same object again, os2sys.ini doesn't grow
- but if I change a different object, it does grow. And this is not because
- anything is being stored in os2sys.ini because of the changes: data like
- that is stored in EAs.
-
- I'm convinced the Workplace Shell is at fault.
- :
- :--
- :Timothy F. Sipples | Read the OS/2 FAQ List 2.0g, available from
- :sip1@ellis.uchicago.edu | 128.123.35.151, anonymous ftp, in /pub/os2/all/info
- :Dept. of Econ., Univ. | /faq, or from LISTSERV@BLEKUL11.BITNET (send "HELP")
- :of Chicago, 60637 | [Read the List, THEN post to ONE OS/2 newsgroup.]
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