DG>     Yes, using the wonderfull tools provided by Hank Kelder,
 DG>     WPSTOOLxx where the xx is the latest version. Only beef I have
 DG>     is that about v16 or so, the copyini function was left out. I
 DG>     still use it to back up a set of INI files prior to running
 DG>     CHECKINI /C in case of a screw up. Although it has always been

copyini is no longer required.  Starting with one of the OS/2 2.1
fixpaks,the ini files started working in a substantially different way
(that I disagree with;  but I digress).

The upshot of this is that you can safely copy/xcopy/zip your os2*.ini
files at any time.

The system never actually writes directly to the *.ini's anymore,it keeps
stuff in memory,  then,  when it decides to take a dump,it writes them out
to files like "os2.!!!",  then erases os2.ini and renames os2.!!!
to os2.ini.

If another program (for example, copy/xcopy/zip) has os2.ini open during
the erase or rename,  the background os2 ini-dump operation will fail,and
it will try again next time.


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