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- From: adhir@wam.umd.edu (Al Dhir)
- Subject: Re: Windows don't remember positions
- Message-ID: <1992Nov9.193724.8543@wam.umd.edu>
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- Date: Mon, 9 Nov 1992 19:37:24 GMT
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- >
- >In short, no. The program must be coded to remember its window
- >position. Most do -- it is bad form not to. However, if I had a dime
- >for every programmer who practiced bad form...
-
- These are the OS2 system apps that I am talking about. What you have just
- said is that the OS/2 programmers used "bad form"... I couldn't agree more.
- What we've got here is a wonderful BASE OS. What we need is for them to take
- it and massage it and work with it and add all the little frilly frills that
- people need/want, and then we'll have a truly superior OS.
-
- >Much like WIN.INI, OS2SYS.INI can grow as applications add
- >information. A few applications (e.g. Describe) are polite enough to
- >have "UnInstall" routines which will remove this extraneous
- >information when you delete the application. However, if you like to
- >try a lot of new software, this file will grow and grow. The CopyINI
- >utility presumably trims OS2SYS.INI back down to the bare, system
- >essentials.
- >
- >The solution is again to get better programmers who will be kind
- >enough to keep the information saved in the INI files to a minimum,
- >and who will provide an uninstall feature. Of course, programmers
- >like to think that everything they write is useful ("You mean you want
- >to uninstall MY application?"), so don't hold your breath. (The
- >same problem applies to Windows, as I mention, with WIN.INI. In that
- >particular case WIN.INI is plain text, so you can use a text editor to
- >trim it. That can be a mixed blessing, since, if you don't know what
- >you are doing, you can trash things quite easily. It is a little more
- >difficult with OS/2's INI files.)
- >
- Again, the "better programmers" you are referring to SHOULD have been the
- ones at IBM. Why didn't they add a "prune INI files" option so that we
- wouldn't get stuck with an umpteen meg INI file? You bring up the WIN.INI
- file...well, the biggest WIN.INI file I have ever run across was about 50
- or 60k long. The OS/2 ini files are 4 times this to begin with.
-