Ini 1.4 build: 9639 released: 2012-04-27 compiled with: Java 1.8.0_131 Jet jet12.0-pro-x86/1.8.0_131 ini file tidier and verifier. Copyright: (c) 2006-2017 Canadian Mind Products. Java application. Download from: http://mindprod.com/products1.html#INI ---- Notes: You must install the Java JRE to use this program. See http://mindprod.com/jgloss/jgloss/jre.html This program can only be used from the command prompt, (or via an command line style icon shortcut) e.g. under Windows command.exe or JPSoft tcmd.exe, formerly called the DOS box. Just clicking the programs in a directory listing will not do anything useful. Just typing the program names at the command prompt will not either. This program requires a manual install! See below. This program works with vanilla text files, (e.g. ASCII files or UTF-8 Unicode files). You will need a text editor to create and view them, not a word processor. e.g. notepad, Visual Slick Edit or other suitable text editor http://mindprod.com/jgloss/editor.html. You must use a monospaced font http://mindprod.com/jgloss/monospacedfonts.html (aka fixed pitch, aka programmer font) to view your files, or they won't look properly aligned. I put out an avalanche of free software into the world, and submit PAD files to hundreds of distribution sites, but I rarely hear back from anyone. What's happening? Does it all just work fine? It is so complicated nobody can figure out how to use it and they give up on it? It is it useful? Since everyone has the source, do people just fix the programs to their liking themselves? Did you have trouble installing? Do I presume you know too much? I would be happy to hear from you about your experiences, positive or negative and your requests for improvements. A one-line email to roedy@mindprod.com would be great. ===> Free <=== Full source included. You may even include the source code, modified or unmodified in free/commercial open source/proprietary programs that you write and distribute. May be used freely for any purpose but military. For more details on this restriction, see http://mindprod.com/contact/nonmil.html If you include any Canadian Mind Products code in your own applications, your app too must be labelled non-military use only. http://mindprod.com/contact/nonmil.html All Java jars and source code are included. If you need the class files or Javadoc, you will have to build them yourself. To streamline the zip downloads, class files and Javadoc have been removed. ---- Prerequisites: This program runs under any OS that supports Java, (e.g.W2K/XP/W2003/Vista/W2008/W7-32/W7-64/W8-32/W8-64/Linux/LinuxARM/LinuxX86 /LinuxX64/Ubuntu/Solaris/SolarisSPARC/SolarisSPARC64/SolarisX86/SolarisX64/OSX/AIX...) so long as you have <><> Java version 1.8 <><> or later installed (32-bit or 64-bit Java). See http://mindprod.com/jgloss/installingjava.html for details. ---- Installing on a PC: Download source and compiled jar files to run on your own machine as an application. First install a recent Java JDK or JVM. See http://mindprod.com/jgloss/installingjava.html. To install, extract the zip download with WinZip (or similar unzip utility) into any directory you please, often J:\ -- ticking off the use folder names option. To run as an application, type: java.exe %JAVA_OPTIONS -ea -jar J:\com\mindprod\ini\ini.jar {put any parms here} adjusting as necessary to account for where the jar file is. ---- Installing on a MacIntosh: Use Safari to download source and compiled jar files to run on your own machine as an application. Safari will automatically unpack the zip into ~/Downloads (version 10.5) [or on the Desktop (version 10.4 and earlier)]. First install a recent Java JDK or JVM. See http://mindprod.com/jgloss/installingjava.html. You may optionally move the download tree to a permanent home. I don't have a MacIntosh, just a PC, so I can't test my Java programs for Mac compatibility. In theory they should work without problems, but in practice that does not always happen. If you have problems please, let me know, preferably with screenshots and complete verbatim error messages. To run as an application, without parameters, just double click the jar file. To run as an application with parameters, in bash shell type: open Terminal.app cd ~/Desktop java.exe -ea -jar com/mindprod/ini/ini.jar {put any parms here} adjusting as necessary to account for where the jar file is. ---- Rebuilding: The zip already contains the necessary jar files, so unless you modify the program, there is no need to recompile the source or rebuild the jar. Configure.java basedir="E:/" in rebuild.xml to the drive where your files are. Use ANT and rebuild.xml, not build.xml, to recompile and recreate the jar. ---- Use: Windows *.ini file verifer, tidier and sorter. You tidy thse files simply to make them easier to read and modify. It is easier to find things where all the sections and items are in order. It inserts blank links judiciously. It preserves comments in the right place. Tidies and sorts windows *.ini files, ones that look like this: [section] ; a comment item=value; To use: java.exe -jar ini.jar "F:\Program Files\Opera\profile\opera6.ini" UTF-8 Where UTF-8 is the encoding of the INI file usually . Opera uses UTF-8. You can leave it to the default for most others. The original is named somefile.ini.old when you are done. Using the wrong encoding can corrupt your ini files. If you are not sure, don't use this utility. Don't use it on Funduc *.srs search/replace scripts. There are not true ini files. See http://mindprod.com/jgloss/encoding.html for the name of your default encoding and the other possibilities. Don't run ini more than once on the same ini file or you will overwrite your backup. Don't run ini when the program that uses it is running. E.g. shut down Opera to tidy Opera6.ini. This is version 1.0. This program has not yet had any field experience. Make sure you backup before experimenting. Ini uses an alphanumeric sort so that [Search Engine 4] comes before [Search Engine 32] It also uses a case-insensitive sort so that [SEARCH Engine 4] will come side by side [Search Engine 5] Ini refuses to touch any file without the *.ini extension. Some files may have the ini file format without the extension. To tidy them, you must temporarily rename them to something.ini, then tidy, then rename them back. Why the gear icon? It symbolises some sort of under the hood tinkering. ---- Version History: 1.1 2006-01-01 just changes the pad structure. 1.2 2006-03-06 tidy 1.3 2012-02-11 check for dup sections, better error on IOException. Fix problem with *.old does not exist. 1.4 2012-04-27 treat [xxx;xxx] as section, not comment, to handle Opera handlers.ini, add finals. -30-