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- Newsgroups: comp.os.os2.misc
- Path: sparky!uunet!ornl!rm3
- From: rm3@ornl.gov (MCBROOM R C)
- Subject: Re: Growing os2sys.ini file
- Message-ID: <1992Dec16.173331.18526@ornl.gov>
- Organization: Oak Ridge National Laboratory
- References: <1992Dec12.222506.13097@midway.uchicago.edu> <1992Dec13.220103.25075@monu6.cc.monash.edu.au> <4668@copper.Denver.Colorado.EDU>
- Date: Wed, 16 Dec 1992 17:33:31 GMT
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- In article <4668@copper.Denver.Colorado.EDU> rvaniwaa@copper.denver.colorado.edu (Ronald J. Vaniwaarden) writes:
- >I have to admit that I passed by all of these messages about the growing
- >ini files as mine were always sitting at 60k and 150k for os2.ini and
- >os2sys.ini respectively. I recently noticed that I was running out of HD
- >space and checked these files. The results: 165653 and 1010849 bytes
- >respectively. I admit that this is not a huge problem since cpyini shrunk
- >them down to pre-CSD size but it is still quite annoying. I hope that this
- >is fixed with the next upgrade (2.1ish)
- >
- Some others reported various things getting changed in this process.
- Particularly program icons being changed to data. I've had a similar instance
- although I can't swear that cpyini was responsible. My unzip program somehow
- became associated as a datafile for Mathcad. The only way I found to
- straighten things out was to use native dos tomove unzip.exe to a floppy
- boot OS/2 from a floppy run chkdsk /f to clear the EA's reboot and bring unzip
- back. The proper way to modify the associations still escapes me even after
- reading a few postings and the "guide".
-
- One thing I can definitely trace to cpyini is that the menu heading for the
- OS/2 editor now has a special character in it that wasn't there before.
-
- I've tried inimaint as well but it always dies when I tell it to do a copy.
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