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Date:	Thu, 6 Sep 2001 18:58:37 PDT
From:	Harry Chris Motin <hmotin@attglobal.net >
Reply-To:	scoug-help@scoug.com
To:	scoug-help@scoug.com
Subject:	SCOUG-Help: UniMaint & CDFS.IFS /W

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Great, Peter. Glad to hear it! As much reconfiguring and installing as
you do, you really need UniMaint (and should run it often). It's amazing
what clean *.INI files will do for you.

HCM
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Peter Skye wrote:
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> My daily processing ended at 8:10 p.m. I added /W to my IFS=CDFS.IFS
> line and rebooted.
>
> The system hung trying to start the Workplace Shell.
>
> So over stroddles The Duck, who bites me on the ankle and says "Will you
> ever run UniMaint like Levine keeps telling you to do?"
>
> I search for my UniMaint and find it on the floor under the desk. I
> copy the files on the two diskettes to a UniMaint directory on my hard
> drive. I figure the best way to send Mr. Levine into apoplexy is not to
> read the documentation or the ReadMe, so I simply run GTINST.exe. It
> works.
>
> Then I try to install the UniMaint update
> (http://www.filestar.com/pages/download.html). The web page
> *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
> everything short of grep for SHSINST.
>
> 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.
>
> Inside the unzipped update file is SHSINST.
>
> Sigh.
>
> I run SHSINST and then reboot because CONFIG.SYS has been modified. I
> start UniMaint.exe. I click on Repair and run "Report Only". It runs
> and runs and runs. I decide to stop it. There's no Stop button. I
> figure it will take a while to crank through 30 GB so I leave it running
> and go have a snack.
>
> When I return there's a long list on the screen of errors that UniMaint
> found. Cool. I high-speed scroll through the list several times. As
> near as I can figure there are about 10,000 error lines. No wonder
> CHECKINI hangs up. No wonder my Desktop won't automatically start. No
> wonder ObjectRecreator won't work.
>
> I check "Do Repair" and click Execute. It runs and runs and runs. It
> fixes the User Ini File and the System Ini File.
>
> Then I try ObjectRecreator again. It works fine now, and recreates my
> Desktop. I reboot. Well heck, everything is now peachy keen. Fancy
> that.
>
> So The Duck stroddles back over and again bites me on the ankle. "What
> was THAT for?" I say. "That's for ignoring Levine's advice for two
> months," quacks The Duck.
>
> Oh, and the /W on the CDFS.IFS line works too. I now have long
> filenames on my CDs.
>
> - Peter
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