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Date:	Sat, 8 Sep 2001 13:09:16 PDT
From:	"Steven Levine" <steve53@earthlink.net >
Reply-To:	scoug-help@scoug.com
To:	scoug-help@scoug.com
Subject:	SCOUG-Help: UniMaint & CDFS.IFS /W

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In <3B9A6AA7.4F29@peterskye.com>, on 09/08/01
at 12:00 PM, Peter Skye said:

>I tried running unimaint.exe from a command line and it works.

As expected. It's a mostly PM program.

>I'll try viewing them _after_ I send this message (in case it shuts down
>my system).

OK. I doubt you would recognize what, if anything, is corrupted. I know
I wouldn't. There are better ways to test for simple EA corruption. The
details are in the Unimaint manual.

>Thanks. And I just looked and found "Creating a Restore CMD File" on p.
>28 of the manual.

>I have a sysrestr.cmd now. :)

One thing to keep in mind is that both the backup and restore command
files use hardcoded paths to access zip and unzip and because they are
.cmd files, there is minimal error checking. Some folks have gotten
carried away with deleted "extra" copies of zip and unzip from their
systems with interesting results.

> [H:\Maintenance\UNIMAINT]dir *.z*
> 9-08-01 11:29a 1254207 55 SYSBCK01.zip
> 9-07-01 7:24a 1249852 55 SYSBCK02.ZIP
> 9-06-01 8:07p 1249679 200 SYSBCK03.ZIP
> 9-06-01 12:03a 1151181 55 SYSBCK04.ZIP

Good that means you have 4 generations of backups.

>The number of SYSBCK*.ZIP generations isn't documented in the manual, but
>the online Help says the default is 10. I changed it to 100. I don't
>know where the value is kept -- I ran DIR /OD and no files had new times.

You mean grepping for 100 didn't work? Unimaint keeps alls it's setup
options in os2.ini. This is really very safe. When you have desktop
corruption, it's not the .INI's themselves that are broken. It's the WPS
private data that is logically inconsistent.

>(And what's with the year 2016 on the TL* files?)

IIRC, that's a defect with the original SoftTouch install. It annoyed me,
so I touched them all with the date/time 9/1/99 3:00am. They are just
icons, so it really does not matter all that much.

Steven

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