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- From: ochealth@unixg.ubc.ca (ochealth)
- Newsgroups: comp.os.os2.apps
- Subject: Re: CPYINI - great utility !
- Date: 13 Nov 1992 19:55:17 GMT
- Organization: University of British Columbia, Vancouver, B.C., Canada
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- Message-ID: <1e1175INNsph@iskut.ucs.ubc.ca>
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- In article <4582@drsrv1.hmi.de> pfr@drsrv1.hmi.de (Fritsch_Wolfgang) writes:
- :
- :I tried cpyini (extracted as cpyini.zip from hobbes) and found that it
- :reduced the size of my os2system.ini file from above 1M to about 120k.
- :Counting the backup copies this leads to about 4M space savings on my
- :hard disk, and also to smaller time for boot.
- :
- :I think that this utility belongs into the FAQ list, under the topic
-
- Yes. Crap seams to get lost in the system.ini files and cpyini only copies
- valid entries, leaving the garbage behind. At least this is waht happens on
- my system (bug: mine wentup to 4 megs. I've heard as high as 5 megs). This
- isn't from dead space (as some have suggested) or from too many progams
- adding entries (unlikely given the number of WPS aware apps).
- :"smart tricks" !
-
- There is supposed to be a system API to access these files (to prevent
- bogus entries or conflicts) but I can't believe who SLOW it is to access
- the ini files. Just look at how long cpyini (or another program inicopy)
- take to copy the file! You'd think that the system call would have some
- kind of smart search tree for accesssing this file, esp. since its a database
- with keys and records; most databases are better at searching and copying.
-
- No wonder WPS takes so long to start up if it has to go through this bottleneck.
-
- :
- :Wolfgang Fritsch
- :pfr@psun2.hmi.de
-
-
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