INI file size
Lee Jay Karns
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Lee
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Denny Dedmore
which tripped up packaging a large project. It may be very possible that
W95/98 had a 64K limit and that limit was lifted in new OSs ... I don't
recall the details.
Note the old AutoPackager bug was fixed by not having the AutoPackager user
standard getIni and setIni functions to read and write to the ASU file
(which is an INI file). Instead C based functions were written to manually
parse the file as if it were just a text file and not an INI file.
Denny
Lee Jay Karns
Regards,
Lee
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Simon Price
rewrites the whole file for each update you make. That's why I set up a
separate cache book in the catalog engine - the ini files got too slow.
Also, the catalog writes the init file out using writeFile if I remember
rightly (it was a long while ago!) - again, for speed.
Simon
Lee Jay Karns wrote:
> Does anyone know if there is a file size limitation on ini files?
>
> Regards,
> Lee
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LAOT Serge
On W98, the limits are :
1024 bytes for a value,
64 kB for the file (over the file is merely cut).
On NT4-XP, I've got no limit except due to the disk space (and time of
course).
Serge
> Thanks Denny.
>
> Regards,
> Lee
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> [mailto:tool...@LISTSERV.PLATTECANYON.COM]On Behalf Of Denny Dedmore
> Sent: Thursday, April 21, 2005 12:02 PM
> To: tool...@LISTSERV.PLATTECANYON.COM
> Subject: Re: INI file size
>
>
> I'd say 64K...since that is the source of an old bug in the AutoPackager
> which tripped up packaging a large project. It may be very possible that
> W95/98 had a 64K limit and that limit was lifted in new OSs ... I don't
> recall the details.
>
> Note the old AutoPackager bug was fixed by not having the AutoPackager user
> standard getIni and setIni functions to read and write to the ASU file
> (which is an INI file). Instead C based functions were written to manually
> parse the file as if it were just a text file and not an INI file.
>
> Denny
>
> -----Original Message-----
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> On Behalf Of Lee Jay Karns
> Sent: Thursday, April 21, 2005 8:34 AM
> To: tool...@LISTSERV.PLATTECANYON.COM
> Subject: INI file size
>
Lee Jay Karns
Regards,
Lee
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[mailto:tool...@LISTSERV.PLATTECANYON.COM]On Behalf Of Simon Price
Sent: Thursday, April 21, 2005 4:01 PM
To: tool...@LISTSERV.PLATTECANYON.COM
Subject: Re: INI file size
They get really slow if you let them get too big because it reparses and
rewrites the whole file for each update you make. That's why I set up a
separate cache book in the catalog engine - the ini files got too slow.
Also, the catalog writes the init file out using writeFile if I remember
rightly (it was a long while ago!) - again, for speed.
Simon
Lee Jay Karns wrote:
> Does anyone know if there is a file size limitation on ini files?
>
> Regards,
> Lee
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> office:440.333.5271
> mobile:440.227.5719
> fax:440.356.0978
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