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Date:	Sun, 28 Jul 2002 21:47:58 PST7
From:	"J. R. Fox" <jr_fox@pacbell.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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Peter said:

> > query of a couple days ago, (Peter . . . ?)
>
> The only Wednesday post I have with your name on it is the one titled
> "Re: SDD".

and Steven concurred (a rare occasion, this) :

> What was the subject? I don't recall the post?

Ooops, it was from 7/22.

"This leads me back to an old question I once asked on CIS, but either
I did not understand the answers received, or they were just not very helpful.
And this has very practical implications. When do you absolutely *need* to
install an application afresh (to be usable by a particular OS/2), vs. just
simply trying to migrate it in from some prior install (other partition)
via "Add a Program ?" I've had pretty fair success with the latter approach
when the item in question was a simple utility, a game, 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."

"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 move a whole
bunch of programs in one shot, much less relocate the contents of a whole
partition to a new drive letter, and globally change all the program location
info so that it would still work. If such a utility existed, it would represent
a huge time savings over redoing a full app. installation. (PowerQuest had
a utility for WIN called Magic Mover, that claimed to do this, but I don't
know how well it worked.) Peter's post suggests the possibility that such
a thing might not be out of the question."

(I was referring to Peter's columnar breakdown of what is found inside
the INIs.)

The rest of the possibly disappeared message dealt with comments re UniMaint,
CheckIni, etc., and I'll be glad to reprise it separately, if that is indicated.

Jordan

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