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Date:	Mon, 3 Nov 2003 22:30:27
From:	"Steven Levine" <steve53@earthlink.net >
Reply-To:	scoug-help@scoug.com
To:	scoug-help@scoug.com
Subject:	SCOUG-Help: cleanINI questions.

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In <200311032212.5539524.6@scoug.com>, on 11/03/03
at 10:12 PM, jack.huffman@worldnet.att.net said:

>I ran cleanini with no switches and got this start of the log file
>(below) which I interpret to mean the only changes cleanini wants to make
>are to handles.

>Is my interpretation correct?

Yes. The /LogDel switch just declutters the log file.

>So it looks like cleanin: (1) does not delete, in fact doesn't even
>check a handle which it finds in the ini file, (2) doesn't delete a
>handle with a FD in column 3 or a D in column4 even if that handle is not
>in the ini file.

Not quite. cleanini, like checkini, does nothing to the INI files unless
you use the /C option.

All Handles are in the INI files by definition. Both checkini and
cleanini can delete invalid handles. That is handles without and
associated file or directory. Cleanini can delete unused handles. These
are handles that are not referenced by other data structures in the INI
files. They can be safely deleted because the WPS will recreate them
when/if needed.

>Incidentally I have also concluded that, so far as the PM and PMWP
>entries are concerned, chkini finds errors that Unimaint missed, but
>cleanini does not.

That's why all three are needed. :-)

Regards,

Steven

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