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Errata - There was an error in the article INI file management by Bob Mclellan from the September issue. Jose Antonio Vico Palomino pointed out:

There is an error in the following part of the article:

But what if you need to permanently add a Printer Object to the system, or a Program Object, or install a new application (many of which make ini file changes), or make some other configuration change which affects these files? This introduces an interesting twist. In case something goes wrong we need to keep a backup of our starting point for a while because a problem may not show up immediately. This is done by some simple steps.

ATTRIB -s -h -r c:\bob\OS2\*.INI >NUL
COPY c:\bob\OS2.INI c:\bob\buOS2.INI >NUL
COPY c:\bob\OS2SYS.INI c:\bob\buOS2SYS.INI >NUL
COPY c:\OS2\OS2.INI c:\bob\OS2.INI >NUL
COPY c:\OS2\OS2SYS.INI c:\bob\OS2SYS.INI >NUL

The line

ATTRIB -s -h -r c:\bob\OS2\*.ini >nul

is wrong. The correct statement would be:

ATTRIB -s -h -r C:\OS2\*.ini >nul

or

ATTRIB -s -h -r C:\OS2\OS2*.ini >nul

This is my result:

ATTRIB -s -h -r c:\OS2\OS2*.INI >NUL
COPY c:\bob\OS2.INI c:\bob\buOS2.INI >NUL
COPY c:\bob\OS2SYS.INI c:\bob\buOS2SYS.INI >NUL
COPY c:\OS2\OS2.INI c:\bob\OS2.INI >NUL
COPY c:\OS2\OS2SYS.INI c:\bob\OS2SYS.INI >NUL
ATTRIB +s +h +r c:\OS2\OS2*.INI >NUL

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