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- From: cvadrtbc@vmsa.is.csupomona.edu (Srikanth Viswanathan)
- Subject: Re: BACKUP's and the Desktop
- Organization: California Polytechnic University, Pomona
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- Date: Thu, 30 Jul 1992 22:40:00 GMT
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- >
- >The method using CALL is the best. Srikanth, you are correct in your comparison
- >between RUN and CALL. If you use RUN however, you have a risk that the
- >files might be already locked when the RUN program is executed. This cannot
- >happen with CALL.
- >
-
- Ahh, good point, I didn't think of that. But should it matter if you had
- the RUN statement as the first or second line, by the time that OS/2
- loads the .INI files, it should have already copied by then.
-
- Srikanth
-