Hello Andrew!

24 May 96 10:31, Andrew Grillet wrote to Jonathan de Boyne Pollard:

 JdBP>> This is one of the rare instances where I find myself in the
 JdBP>> unfortunate position of agreeing with Microsoft.  Microsoft's
 JdBP>> decision to make their "registry" use a private
binary format rather
 JdBP>> than a text format was motivated by the desire to prevent users
 JdBP>> screwing up INI files by using text editors on them.

 AG> But MS are dealing with Windows users. We are talking OS/2 users here :-)
 AG> It stops us from fixing our .INI files.

Considering the number of INI file editor, this argument seems to be a bit
empty. I have even seen a REXX CMD that allows you to examine any ini file
!
I imagine that the same will soon or later pop up on w95 desktop...

 JdBP>> OS/2's binary INI files also have this advantage.  Windows echoes
 JdBP>> are full of people who have hand-mangled their INI files, and
 JdBP>> suddenly find themselves without fonts, without printers, or with a
 JdBP>> completely non-functional Windows system because they've removed the
 JdBP>> wrong VxD line.  You don't see any equivalent messages in OS/2
 JdBP>> echoes.

because the tcpip entries are messed up with ? :-)


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