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- From: habke@news.cc.umanitoba.ca (William habke)
- Subject: Re: showini problem
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- Date: Mon, 14 Dec 1992 15:14:27 GMT
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- In article <10195@blue.cis.pitt.edu.UUCP> djbpitt+@pitt.edu (David J Birnbaum) writes:
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- >> I have used copyini (alias cpyini) to reduce the size of my ini files,
- >> but this requires the user to reboot from a floppy in order to replace
- >> the old ini files with the new, shrunken ones. One user informed me that
- >> showini was able to replace ini files while the system was running.
- >> "A significant advantage," thought I.
- >>
- >> The backups went smoothly, but the restores did not. The restore stopped
- >> suddenly in the middle (after lpt3) and OS/2 crashed; I could move the
- >> mouse cursor, but nothing on the desktop responded to clicking and
- >> control-escape had no effect. The three finger salute generated a
- >> "system is rebooting" message, but no activity after several minutes of
- >> waiting. The big red button did the trick; chkdsk corrected one
- >> allocation error and everything came up fine (using the old ini files).
- >> I then used copyini to clean up my ini files without problems.
- >>
- >> Has anyone else had trouble restoring with showini? I backed up to OS/2
- >> format, using "showini /b /s" and restored with "showini /r /s".
- >> Although the system was running, I wasn't doing anything else at the
- >> time that should have been affecting the ini files: alrmpro was running
- >> quietly in a corner and a full-screen Win-OS/2 session was up, but with
- >> no applications running. Any ideas what went wrong?
- >>
- >> On a related topic, my os2sys.ini file grew by some 40k after I started
- >> alrmpro. Anyone else seen this?
- >>
- >> Thanks,
- >>
- >>
- >> David
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