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Date:	Thu, 6 Sep 2001 14:04:41 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 <3B9737A4.981@peterskye.com>, on 09/06/01
at 01:45 AM, Peter Skye said:

>documentation or the ReadMe, so I simply run GTINST.exe. It works.

Duh/2.

>*specifically* says that you *must* use SHSINST to install the update.
>But there's no SHSINST link on the page. And there's no SHSINST file in
>the just-installed UniMaint. I spend close to 20 minutes searching

Oh, I get it. Larry Martin should have known to develop SHSINST for Jim
Read before he sold the rights to Jim. :-)

>everything short of grep for SHSINST.

Just as well, you've already invested 20 minutes searching.

>It's nowhere to be found. I figure I'll try to install the update
>anyway, even though I don't have SHSINST. I download the U5100140 update
>file and unzip it.

The CSD install read.me at:

http://www.filestar.com/download/updates/u5100140.txt

states:

"To install the CSD, perform the following steps (if you are
reading this from InstallStar, jump to paragraph 3):

1. Copy the self-extracting installation file U5100140.EXE to
a temporary directory or the directory in which you intend to
install the program and run it to extract the files.

2. You may start the install program with or without the
compressed file as a parameter. The U5100140.CSD file is the
compressed file that contains all other files and installation
definitions."

The Duck must have had flustered feathers after 20 minutes of attempting
to invent his own installation instructions :-)

>Inside the unzipped update file is SHSINST.

Duh/2.

>near as I can figure there are about 10,000 error lines. No wonder

Is that an exact estimate?

>CHECKINI hangs up. No wonder my Desktop won't automatically start. No
>wonder ObjectRecreator won't work.

In life, hindsight makes many things obvious.

>Then I try ObjectRecreator again. It works fine now, and recreates my
>Desktop. I reboot. Well heck, everything is now peachy keen. Fancy
>that.

Now, schedule a run every 2 weeks or so the keep the generated garbage
under control.

Also, get Carsten Arnold's cleanini. It does cleanups neither checkini or
unimaint do.

You might consider using Unimaint's desktop and supplemental backup tools.
Much less failure prone than OS/2 built-in tool.

Steven

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