Tuesday, November 16, 1999
Hello Roel,
Tuesday, Tuesday, November 16, 1999, you wrote:
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Roel> Hello Steve,
SL>> Those limits are arbitrary. The Microsoft routines obviously have bugs in
SL>> them, don't they? :)
Roel> well, it's not a real bug, as the ini-file-specification sets size
Roel> limits to 64k... (remember that these were developped for win 3.x and
Roel> maybe even lower...)
Roel> 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.
Roel> well yes, but then you can't use simple acsii-files if you want to
Roel> store binary data (or even executable strings like you can in the
Roel> registry) (about the latter one: don't ask me how or even why, but it
Roel> can be done...) (hell, where could somebody use this for? -excluding
Roel> hackers!)
virus writers....
Or MS wanting your system to do things they donot want you to know
about...
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.
Roel> I'm not so fond of NT either, but sometimes you can't make the call...
Roel> since your budget or boss will :-(
Best regards,
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