What service pack for Win98se?

"Bill in Co" wrote in
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It's a tradeoff, but, in retrospect, maybe it is best that the INI thing
is being phased out, all things considered. I can sure see the
advantage of having everything stored in "one location" (registry), and
always in memory. (Plus the normal limitation of 64K max for INI files,
although I think some programs found ways around that).


You're not a fan or portability and self-containment? Each has its place.

Defining that place isn;t so easy, I suppose the best expression of how to
define it is: Does the program serve the computer, or the computer serve the
program? In the first case, the general environment created on that machine
is what matters, and those programs added to support that might best use the
registry because of frequent fast accesses, and permanence there. Other
things, like compilers, will almost certainly be less frequently accesses
except by prolific coders, and have a huge collection of modified header
files and config tweaks, and being supported by the computer, and in turn
aiming to support a large number of possible computers with their compiled
code, it makes sense to keep them self contained just to keep track of it
all, never mind copy it to some other machine for local testing.

In short, INI files are not dead. Best of all are those programs that let us
choose which method to use, but those seem to be very rare. LTspice (circuit
simulator) will do it, and I think I have only one other that can, and I
can't remember what it is. Possibly LnS Firewall.