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Date:	Thu, 6 Sep 2001 21:04:53 PDT
From:	Peter Skye <pskye@peterskye.com >
Reply-To:	scoug-help@scoug.com
To:	scoug-help@scoug.com
Subject:	SCOUG-Help: UniMaint & CDFS.IFS /W

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Steven Levine wrote:
>
> >I simply run GTINST.exe. It works.
>
> Duh/2.

Actually, I didn't think it would, given my history of always trying to
do something in the one way which fails. :)

> >there's no SHSINST
>
> Oh, I get it. Larry Martin should have
> known to develop SHSINST for Jim Read
> before he sold the rights to Jim. :-)

Good! I'm glad you agree with me! :)))))

> The CSD install read.me states:

You mean I *was* supposed to read the docs?

I just looked, and I didn't see any mention of SHSINST.exe being
embedded in the .zip file which SHSINST is supposed to process . . .

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

The Duck gave up on me and went off to watch VideoDucks/1 on tv.

> >near as I can figure there
> >are about 10,000 error lines.
>
> Is that an exact estimate?

As close as I could interpolate! I timed a short scroll from the top
and counted the number of error lines, then timed a complete scroll from
top-to-bottom. Got out my slide rule and calculated 10,000.

I did notice that over half the error lines were Mozilla stuff.

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

Henk doesn't want you to run checkini when other programs are using the
os2*.ini files. I didn't see the same warning in UltiMaint. Heh heh
heh heh heh heh. Another chance for me to kaboobaflage my system.

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

I was wondering where CleanIni was. I have Carsten's home page link
under "OS/2 Software" but hadn't indexed it on CleanIni. Thanks.

http://home.t-online.de/home/C.Arnold/e/

The Babelfish translation in the cleanini .zip is "sort of" readable.
Should I use a Response file and the /Resp:file parameter? Do I need
/multipass or /Restart? Or should I just use /c /log:logfile.txt and
see what happens?

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

UniMaint impressed me -- it wouldn't let me do a Repair until I first
did a Desktop backup.

I've never used Warp's built-in Desktop archiving; I just relied on the
Desktop and os2*.ini files in my full backups. Of course, I never knew
exactly what files to restore so I think I got a few things "out of
phase" occasionally when I unknowingly did "partial Desktop restores".

Thanks, Steven.

- Peter

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