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Date:	Fri, 19 Jul 2002 23:07:09 PST7
From:	Peter Skye <pskye@peterskye.com >
Reply-To:	scoug-help@scoug.com
To:	scoug-help@scoug.com
Subject:	SCOUG-Help: boot hang... still

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Steven Levine wrote:
>
> When you reset the Desktop, you effectively throw
> away the changes that the WPS has been caching in
> OS2.!!!. What the reset is supposed to accomplish
> is to prevent these cached changes from reversing
> the changes made by Unimaint or checkini.
>
> ... The longer you take to run checkini, the
> more chance that the WPS will decide to flush
> its internal buffers and overwrite a change.

Hmm.

-- 1. Okay, the OS2*.INI files are very simple key|subkey|datastring
databases.

-- 2. There appear to be two ways to modify these files:

------ a. Call the appropriate OS/2 routine with the key and subkey
values and add/delete/change the datastring, or
------ b. Read the file into memory, modify it using your own code, and
write it back out. And hope that the WPS hasn't done anything to it in
the interim.

Am I right so far?

Now then, my impression is that UniMaint uses 2a above and CheckIni uses
2b above. Is this correct? (I don't know which method CleanIni uses --
I don't use it any more because it kept zapping my INI files.)

- Peter

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