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Date:	Tue, 23 Jul 2002 04:21:58 PST7
From:	Peter Skye <pskye@peterskye.com >
Reply-To:	scoug-help@scoug.com
To:	scoug-help@scoug.com
Subject:	SCOUG-Help: Re: INI files & UniMaint | Installs vs. Migration | pgm. relocation | Black Screen

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> Peter wrote:
>
> > The INI files are very simple.
> >
> > It looks like this:
> >
> > Application Key Data
> > =================== ================== ==============================
> > MyFinancialPrograms MyTaxReturnProgram C:\Finance\Taxes\DuckTax.exe
> > MyFinancialPrograms MyTaxReturnProgram C:\Finance\Taxes\1040-2000.txt
> > MyFinancialPrograms MyTaxReturnFor2001 C:\Finance\Taxes\1040-2001.txt

J. R. Fox wrote:
>
> _If_ that is pretty much all one finds inside the OS/2 INIs
> . . . (I do believe I have glimpsed other stuff in there,
> Peter, such as the odd product registration #.)

Foxy, you've been hanging out in the chicken coop too long.
I didn't mean that the INI files only had the above three
entries! :)

This is INI Files 101. In INI Files 102 we'll learn how the
Data field can have lots of data stuck end-to-end, like this:

Application Key Data
=================== ================== ==============================
MyFinancialPrograms RegistrationKey DemoVersion;Expiration=20020725;InstallCode=2AF78B01

These programmer guys are pretty sneaky. Sometimes they don't
like semicolons and they use something called a NUL 00 instead.
This strange psychosis of the programmer mind will be covered
in INI-Psych 201.

- Peter

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