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echo: os2prog
to: Tom Brown
from: Jonathan de Boyne Pollard
date: 1996-05-21 21:12:20
subject: profile

TB>
  > 1) I like to use an environment variable instead of an INI entry to
  > point to my .INI file.  This way, I can install my applications by
  > simply copying files and editing the config.sys.
TB>

  You cannot easily edit CONFIG.SYS from a batch file, whereas you *can*
  add entries to OS2.INI from a batch file :

    /*MYINSTALL.CMD*/

    /* ... lots of setup stuff and command line parsing ... */

    'XCOPY '||SourceDir||' '||TargetDir

    /* Save the location of the INI file in OS2.INI and put   */
    /* the default setup information in the private INI file. */

    Call RxFuncAdd 'SysIni','RexxUtil','SysIni'
    result = SysIni("USER", "INI Location",
"MyApplication", TargetDir)
    result = SysIni(TargetDir||"\MYAPP.INI", "blah",
"blah", "blah")

  > JdeBP <
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