AG>
  > JdeBP> OS/2's binary INI files also have this advantage.  Windows echoes
  > JdeBP> are full of people who have hand-mangled their INI files, and
  > JdeBP> suddenly find themselves without fonts, without printers, or with a
  > JdeBP> completely non-functional Windows system because they've removed the
  > JdeBP> wrong VxD line.  You don't see any equivalent messages in OS/2
  > JdeBP> echoes.
  >
  > No they just have to completely re-install, [...]
AG>

  But you maintain that OS/2 users are astute, remember ?

  An astute OS/2 user will have read the manual, and learned that the
  MAKEINI program can be used to re-create a default OS2.INI or OS2SYS.INI
  without the need to reinstall anything.

  An even more astute OS/2 user will have grabbed any of the 3 or so REXX
  scripts that float about on FIDONET, that will read and parse OS2INI.RC,
  allowing for the defaults to be re-instated without destroying any
  additional configuration information.

  The *really* astute OS/2 user will be able to write such a REXX script
  from scratch, as needed.  (-:

  Which nevertheless digresses from the main point that most people don't
  hand-edit OS2.INI *because* it is in binary format, thus leading to
  none of the "I edited my INI file and it stopped booting" problems that
  plague the Windows world.

  > JdeBP <
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