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- From: sip1@ellis.uchicago.edu (Timothy F. Sipples)
- Subject: Re: Windows don't remember positions
- Message-ID: <1992Nov10.040059.24608@midway.uchicago.edu>
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- Organization: Dept. of Econ., Univ. of Chicago
- References: <16885@umd5.umd.edu> <1992Nov9.171702.5759@midway.uchicago.edu> <1992Nov9.193724.8543@wam.umd.edu>
- Date: Tue, 10 Nov 1992 04:00:59 GMT
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- In article <1992Nov9.193724.8543@wam.umd.edu> adhir@wam.umd.edu (Al Dhir) writes:
- >>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.
-
- Agreed, mostly. One thing Microsoft does reasonably well is to make
- things, well, frilly. (Never mind that the foundation is a bit weak.
- :-)) IBM is learning, I'm sure.
-
- However, some would consider it a feature that VIEW, for example,
- takes up the whole screen. :-)
-
- >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.
-
- Actually, they did provide several methods to prune the INI files. In
- the Redbooks, for example, they suggest making back ups of these INI
- files, so that you can revert to the old one should you do something
- you don't like. They have issued rudimentary INI file editors as part
- of the Employee Written Software program (look on
- software.watson.ibm.com), and there are various third party efforts
- (e.g. ShowINI, INIMaint, etc). The ALT-F1 trick on boot up restores
- the INI files and desktop from the install defaults. And the MAKEINI
- program, documented in the printed material accompanying OS/2, does
- something similar.
-
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