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- From: jagrant@emr1.emr.ca (John Grant)
- Subject: Re: Two beginner's questions
- Message-ID: <1993Jan6.223149.403@emr1.emr.ca>
- Organization: Energy, Mines, and Resources, Ottawa
- References: <1icf97INNf7i@flop.ENGR.ORST.EDU> <1993Jan6.135141.11288@solaris.rz.tu-clausthal.de>
- Date: Wed, 6 Jan 1993 22:31:49 GMT
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- In article <1993Jan6.135141.11288@solaris.rz.tu-clausthal.de> hochstae@allfiwib1.wiwi.uni-marburg.de (Christoph H. Hochstaetter) writes:
- >In <1icf97INNf7i@flop.ENGR.ORST.EDU> gunnelj@curie.CS.ORST.EDU (John A. Gunnels) writes:
- [...stuff deleted...]
-
- >In the registry, there is also a section called INI-File Mapping, which
- >causes that Windows 3.x apps, that issue WriteProfileString or
- >WritePrivateProfileString to write the data in the registry. You can
- >choose between storing on a per user basis or per machine basis. This
- >causes, that Win 3.x apps store certain things on per user basis.
-
- Oh no! Is this true! In Windows 3.1, I've been using the
- ...PrivateProfileString functions to maintain a script file
- of data descriptors, rather than a *.INI file for the app. The
- file is not in the windows directory and is not used for the
- app config. Instead it resides with the data files used by the app
- and contains various info about the files. I want it to
- remain ASCII, so it can be edited and I want it to remain in
- the directory where my data resides.
-
- When I move to NT, does this mean that even the ...Private...
- stuff will go into the registry in the NT directory!?!?!?
- If this is true, I will have to write my own replacement
- for these functions and stop using them altogether.
-
- [...more stuff deleted...]
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- John A. Grant jagrant@emr1.emr.ca
- Airborne Geophysics
- Geological Survey of Canada, Ottawa
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