Date:  Tue, 13 Jan 2009 08:16:23 -0500
From:  madodel <madodel at ptdprolog.net>
Subject:  [VOICENWS] SW: Generic INI file save and restore

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From: Peter Moylan <peterDESPAM at DESPAMpmoylan.org>

This is to announce the first release of GenINI, a pair of programs to back 
up OS/2 INI files in human-readable form, and to restore an INI file from 
the human-readable form. GenINI is freeware and open source.

You can get it from

     http://www.pmoylan.org/pages/os2/genini.html

or from

     ftp://ftp.pmoylan.org/software/genini100.zip

This release is the first step in a longer-term project, aimed at giving 
the option of using text-based TNI files as a substitute for binary INI 
files. The reason for wanting to abandon the native INI format is that the 
native support has not been updated to take into account hardware 
developments, and that it now sometimes fails with an "out of memory" 
problem caused by the fact that the memory region designated by OS/2 as 
"shared memory" is too small for the demands being placed on it. Those 
demands are heavy each time you run software ported from Windows or Linux - 
both of which encourage the use of a large shared memory region - and 
unfortunately that is where much of our software is now coming from. The 
chances of fixing this problem are very low, unless and until IBM releases 
the source code for PMMERGE.DLL, so we need to work on workarounds.

Peter Moylan                          peterDESPAM at DESPAMpmoylan.org
                                     http://www.pmoylan.org


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