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From: poffen@sj.ate.slb.com (Russ Poffenberger)
Newsgroups: comp.windows.ms
Subject: Re: Editor...
Message-ID: <1990Oct9.153343.3018@sj.ate.slb.com>
Date: 9 Oct 90 15:33:43 GMT
References: <26562@cs.yale.edu> <32FPq2w163w@zooid.UUCP>
Reply-To: poffen@sj.ate.slb.com (Russ Poffenberger)
Organization: Schlumberger Technologies, San Jose, CA.
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In article <32FPq2w163w@zooid.UUCP> dve@zooid.UUCP (David Mason) writes:
>spolsky-joel@cs.yale.edu (Joel Spolsky) writes:
>
>> >It would have to be a "control panel" type display like the pif editor. 
>> 
>> Oh, that would be cool. It would have to know a LOT though.
>
>It's true that a WIN.INI control panel editor would have to know a lot, but 
>really it is the most non-intuitive part of the whole system. The rest of it 
>is point and click, but it is jarring to have to go into an editor to edit 
>WIN.INI whenever you want to change anything, and you even have to know what 
>you are doing. I think it would dramatically improve people's view of Windos 
>if this were available. I can't imagine a first-time computer user, who 
>liked the Windows interface and bought a machine because of it, and then to 
>have to go in and edit WIN.INI and SYSTEM.INI and so on...


What about third party software that uses win.ini for its settings. This makes
the editor very difficult to handle the general case.

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