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Date:	Fri, 28 May 2004 22:35:43 PDT7
From:	Peter Skye <pskye@peterskye.com >
Reply-To:	scoug-help@scoug.com
To:	scoug-help@scoug.com
Subject:	SCOUG-Help: INI file sizes (was: DTOC install fails - EPFIE234)

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> Jon Harrison said:
> >I get an error and the install aborts.

Mark Abramowitz wrote:
> I . . . suggest that you try to clean your ini files.
> That has solved install problems in the past for me.

I just recently learned that there's an internal buffer limitation on
the INI files, and if they get "too big" you have problems.

I ran CleanINI on my OS2SYS.INI file a couple of days ago and dropped it
from 1.3 MB down to 480 KB. Yowza, all kinds of problems disappeared.

John, how big are your OS2*.INI files?

cd \OS2
dir /as OS2*.INI

(My thanks to Jim Read for the buffer info.)

- Peter

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