Re: WIN.INI PROFILE STRINGS?

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From: DON ROY
Date: Wed, 11 Oct 1989 05:46

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Doug - many WinApps place needed info such as you suggest into the 
WIN.INI. What is not considered polite, by many experienced MSW users, 
is that these apps DON'T ASK BEFORE THEY DO IT! No more than you might 
want some DOSapp modifying your AUTOEXEC.BAT or CONFIG.SYS files without
your knowing it, Windows users don't want unknown mod's being made to 
the WIN.INI.

Suggestion: It's probably the best place to put the info your program 
needs to keep handy, but let the user know what's happening and put a 
section header in the WIN.INI, such as [YourApp], so that it's easily 
identifiable ... and traceable to your prg.

If you must modify any other section of the WIN.INI, you'd best find 
another way. Rgds...DON

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From: don.roy@canremote.uucp (DON ROY)
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Subject: Re: WIN.INI PROFILE STRINGS?
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Date: 11 Oct 89 05:46:00 GMT
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