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echo: os2prog
to: Jonathan de Boyne Pollard
from: Peter Fitzsimmons
date: 1995-12-30 05:09:08
subject: idea for program

>  jl> - how the info written in the "Environment" page
  >  jl> should be saved?
  >
  > Hmmm;  I'd say in an EA attached to the exe -- that way,
  > when the exe is erased, the env data goes with it.
PF>

 JdBP>   No.

 JdBP>   The environment information is part of the program object itself, and
 JdBP>   not necessarily attached to any one executable.  You can, after all,
 JdBP>   *change* which executable is invoked when the object is opened by
 JdBP>   altering the program name field in the first page.  As such, the

Good point -- I didn't think it through far enough (and had, earier in the
day,  spent 30mins cleaning out wps os2.ini turds ).


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