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.

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.

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Peter Moylan
http://www.pmoylan.org