It seems that the size limit of the Tc's .ini configuation file is 64k
Whatever you add further to this size limit will be lost!(this bug was reproduced by adding a lot of "search descriptions" - alt+f7 last tab - but I guess it doesn't matter how the 64k limit was exceeded since probably the limit was not only for the section [searches] in the ini file)
I guess Mr. Ghisler never thought in early stages of development of WinCom that one day the ini size limit could become greater than 64k
In the ini file that I encounter this situation the biggest section was [searches] and therefore it could be possible that the limitation should be applied here ... I didn't try to experiment further ...
Last edited by Sam York on 2003-08-14, 21:58 UTC, edited 1 time in total.
yes there are size limitations for some INI functions provided by the operating system. Windows Me/98/95 implementations are more limited than on NT-based systems.
I'd suggest limiting Searches-section to 32K instead - 64K inifiles sound rather messy imho. And multiple... nah. That's overdoing it.
I've seen the discussion about splitting out the different mainparts somewhere else on this board - that may be a solution. Maybe just a separate Searches-ini-file could do it. But I do think this is a little far-fetched, it should be possible to keep the inifile under 64K no matter what.
I'd go for the 'truncated searches'-solution for sure.
AlleyKat wrote:But I do think this is a little far-fetched, it should be possible to keep the inifile under 64K no matter what.
From Mr. Ghisler's answer it seems that the ini file is limited to 64k not one section or the other ... My ini file is already 47k without any "searches" and with the new TC 6.0 I don't think that the inevitable will be postponed.
Hmm ok... that's big... I thought my TC was pretty bloated, and including a few searches it currently runs to ~7½k. You must have some serious stuff in there.
That will help reducing the size to an error-free zone!
Using also the export/import feature in a productive way you can theoretically achieve the multiple-ini-files functionality suggested here. Slightly less than automatic but yet feasible!
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