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  1. Newsgroups: comp.os.os2.misc
  2. Path: sparky!uunet!destroyer!sol.ctr.columbia.edu!vmsa.is.csupomona.edu!cvadrtbc
  3. From: cvadrtbc@vmsa.is.csupomona.edu (Srikanth Viswanathan)
  4. Subject: Re: BACKUP's and the Desktop
  5. Organization: California Polytechnic University, Pomona
  6. References: <26JUL199218454803@vmsb.is.csupomona.edu> <Jul27.102706.46781@aixssc.ibm.co.uk>
  7. Message-ID: <30JUL199214405549@vmsa.is.csupomona.edu>
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  9. Sender: news@ctr.columbia.edu (The Daily Lose)
  10. Date: Thu, 30 Jul 1992 22:40:00 GMT
  11. X-Posted-From: vmsa.is.csupomona.edu
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  15. >The method using CALL is the best.  Srikanth, you are correct in your comparison
  16. >between RUN and CALL.  If you use RUN however, you have a risk that the 
  17. >files might be already locked when the RUN program is executed.  This cannot 
  18. >happen with CALL.
  19.  
  20. Ahh, good point, I didn't think of that.  But should it matter if you  had
  21. the RUN statement as the first or second line, by the time that OS/2
  22. loads the .INI files, it should have already copied by then.
  23.  
  24. Srikanth
  25.