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- From: sip1@ellis.uchicago.edu (Timothy F. Sipples)
- Subject: Re: Growing os2sys.ini file
- Message-ID: <1992Dec12.222506.13097@midway.uchicago.edu>
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- Organization: Dept. of Econ., Univ. of Chicago
- References: <42230@sdcc12.ucsd.edu>
- Date: Sat, 12 Dec 1992 22:25:06 GMT
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- In article <42230@sdcc12.ucsd.edu> pvanmeur@sdcc3.ucsd.edu (Pim van Meurs) writes:
- >Hi I am a regular and predictable victim of the growing os2sys.ini
- >file. I use cpyini to reduce it to its regular 134k or so. But every
- >time I run os2 for a while (1-2 days) os2sys.ini steadily grows to
- >1-1.5Mbyte. NOw this is completely unacceptable. I don't
- >ctrl-alt-del but use normal shutdowm. Something I noticed that I
- >have 3 pmworkplace handles. Using inimaint I looked at them.
- >PM_Worrkplace:ActiveHandles, Pm_workplace:handles0,
- >Pm_workplace:Handles1 Pm_workplace:handles. The are 19k blocks
- >filled with names of files I once had on my system. They include th
- >sp compressed disks filenames and much more historically interesting
- >data. I wonder if they are the cause of my misery. Maybe I should
- >reinstall the original ini files. Where are they btw as my ini
- >backups are also contaminated. Maybe IBM should address this problem
- >as it renders os2 unworkable since I have only 2Mbyte left on my
- >system partition. Help
-
- It appears IBM has released an INI "clean up" utility of their own,
- and there are many excellent freeware/shareware alternatives. Check
- ftp-os2.nmsu.edu. (As always, these items are just released, and they
- do take a few days to make it over to ftp-os2. Check /pub/uploads as
- well as the main index file /pub/os2/00Index. I believe the IBM
- utility has the filename gcini.zip, but, as I said, I just heard about
- it.)
-
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