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From: paul@cscnj.csc.COM (Paul Moody)
Newsgroups: comp.windows.ms
Subject: Re: win.ini profile strings?
Summary: WIN.INI use
Message-ID: <389@cscnj.csc.COM>
Date: 6 Oct 89 13:29:41 GMT
References: <1989Oct5.184151.6942@ux1.cso.uiuc.edu>
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Organization: Computer Sciences Corp., Piscataway NJ
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In article <1989Oct5.184151.6942@ux1.cso.uiuc.edu>, mcdonald@aries.uiuc.edu (Doug McDonald) writes:
> I am writing a Windows program that needs to know where to find
> several files that it uses. These will be set up once when the program is
> loaded and will seldom be changed. Is is polite to put them into the
> win.ini file? There don't seem to be any such things there in mine.
> 
> Doug McDonald (mcdonald@aries.scs.uiuc.edu)

Yes it is polite. 
Set up your own section of win.ini and add your filenames as strings.
WriteProfileString will do this. Do not attempt to read/write this
file yourself.

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