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Hello Steve,
SL> Those limits are arbitrary. The Microsoft routines obviously have bugs in
SL> them, don't they? :)
well, it's not a real bug, as the ini-file-specification sets size
limits to 64k... (remember that these were developped for win 3.x and
maybe even lower...)
so they just obey the limit that MS has set for ini-files... :-)
SL>>> Those "advantages" aren't exclusive to the registry.
>> What has these advantages too?
SL> Flat files in a user's home directory.
well yes, but then you can't use simple acsii-files if you want to
store binary data (or even executable strings like you can in the
registry) (about the latter one: don't ask me how or even why, but it
can be done...) (hell, where could somebody use this for? -excluding
hackers!)
SL> An NT-Network isn't an advantage. Any IT professional can tell you that
SL> and as one such professional I can tell you many reasons why NT is the worst
SL> choice to have a central repository for user files (that is all a "profile"
SL> is). I'd much rather have Unix with NFS.
I'm not so fond of NT either, but sometimes you can't make the call...
since your budget or boss will :-(
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