System and method for ensuring proper execution of scheduled file updates
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Feb 12, 2002
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Nov 12, 1999
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Method and apparatus for ensuring that file updates scheduled in a Wininit.ini file are applied with regard to previously existing versions and multiple instances of such updates are described. In one aspect, a computer program is installed on a computer system and executed after all file update entries have been made to a Wininit.ini file, but before the computer system is rebooted. If duplicate entries exist in the Wininit.ini file for a single destination file, the computer program determines which entry contains the newest source file based first on the version of the source file, if any, and then on the date/time stamp for the source file. The Wininit.ini entries referring to older source files, as well as the files themselves, are then marked for deletion and/or deleted before the computer system is rebooted. In the event that the destination file is the newest version of the file, all entries referring to the destination file, as well as corresponding source files, will be marked for deletion and/or deleted before the computer system is rebooted.
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