[WriteLog] Anoyance during ARRL DX contest ini?

[Fidel Leon]

At 01:27 10/03/2004, Phil Florig wrote:

>I am no software guru and wonder why you can't put the ini file in the 
>same directory
>as the program files.  I have a few programs that that is what they do and 
>makes things

Putting the INI files in the %WINDIR% directory is a legacy of the Windows 
3 era. The operating system even offered (and offers) API function calls to 
manage the INI files, but they had some limitations (INI files not greater 
than 12 KBytes, i.e.).

About putting the INI files in the application directory, is just a 
question of taste, but what would you prefer? One hundred .INI files all 
located in the same directory, or one hundred directories with a single 
.INI into it?

Anyway, as per Microsoft advice, use of INI files is "discouraged", because 
of the Registry database that came with Windows 95 offering "centralized" 
configurations in only one store. Using the Registry allows easy multi-user 
configurations,  but some find tricky and dangerous managing directly with 
it. For developers, accessing the Registry is "cleaner" (from my point of 
view) that reading and writing a text file but, as always, is just a 
question of taste, isn't it?

73,

Fidel Leon - EA3GIP
ea3gip at ea3gip.net