JP> MD> Proramming ethics:  Is it right for use to use the OS2 or
  > MD> the USER INI file for our programs crud?  Personally, I

JP>   IMO, the problem is not that programs store data in the
  >INIs (after all, that is what they were meant for), but
  >that OS/2 has no standard install/uninstall API to manage
  >these details.  Once the system has a way to relate INI
  >entries with a program, it is fairly simple to be sure the
  >INIs are cleaned up when the program is deleted.

So you're saying have the OS look each time you boot to see if the
program still exists?  What if you move it by hand?  The OS should not
be responsible...  And this is my point, programmers should be
responsible.  If you can use the OS2.INI or the SYSTEM.INI, then you can
use your own private INI file just as easily.

Michael Douglass
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