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Date:	Mon, 29 Jul 2002 11:23:08 PST7
From:	"Steven Levine" <steve53@earthlink.net >
Reply-To:	scoug-help@scoug.com
To:	scoug-help@scoug.com
Subject:	SCOUG-Help: Re: earlier message (installs vs. migration)

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In <3D44E50C.E127156F@pacbell.net>, on 07/28/02
at 09:47 PM, "J. R. Fox" said:

>and Steven concurred (a rare occasion, this) :

Rain happens.

>or a legacy DOS program, but I always hesitated to go that route for a
>major app. My guess was that it depended on whether the program install
>had to modify CONFIG.SYS, or placed anything essential into the OS/2
>INIs. In some cases, I have gotten away with grafting a piece in from a
>CONFIG.SYS from another Warp partition for which the item was already
>installed."

As you have found, the answer is it depends. Technically, you can do
manually anything the application specific installer might have done. In
practive, if the app is complex and creates lots of objects and registers
lots of classes, it's easier to let the application specific installer do
the work.

>"A corollary to this question is the issue of moving programs to another
>location. In the simple, individual case, I guess one can just modify
>the address within the program object, and ditto for any location
>reference to it in CONFIG.SYS. But, I don't know of a (reliable) way to

The best way to try to move an application is to use the WPS and drag it
to its new home. This will update all the WPS specific settings for the
application. You might still have to update config.sys and, perhaps, the
application specific .ini data.

>Peter's post suggests the possibility that such a thing might not be out
>of the question."

It's definitely possible to implement something like this, but it's
complicated.

Steven

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