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Date:	Fri, 19 Jul 2002 22:33:45 PST7
From:	"Steven Levine" <steve53@earthlink.net >
Reply-To:	scoug-help@scoug.com
To:	scoug-help@scoug.com
Subject:	SCOUG-Help: boot hang... still

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In <3D3899E1.D67E0C2A@attglobal.net>, on 07/19/02
at 02:58 PM, Harry Chris Motin said:

>Steven and I have talked several times in the past about the correct
>procedure to regularly clean the OS2.INI. I believe he told me (Steven,
>correct me if I'm wrong here) the following (and this is in fact what I
>do!):

Couple of things. IIRC, Wayne does not have Unimaint. At least, he had
not mentioned using it.

There's not absolute right or wrong here. I prefer not to let Unimaint or
checkini reset the Desktop. Others claim I'm and idiot and that unless
the Desktop is reset to fixes won't stick. I let them glory in there
opinion.

That said, if using my normal procedures does not fix a problem, then it's
time to try something else. :-)

> 6. Finally, do not do anything for a couple of minutes. Give the system
>time to update the OS2.INI. What's going on here is that, when OS/2 is up
>and running, it does not use the OS2.INI file to record the changes that
>you make to your system. Instead, it uses the OS2.!!! file, which in the

TTBOMK, this not doing what you think it is. When you reset the Desktop,
you effectively throw away the changes that the WPS has been caching in
OS2.!!!. What the reset is supposed to accomplish is to prevent these
cached changes from reversing the changes made by Unimaint or checkini.

>or at least not in a long while. It is quite dirty with a lot of junk.
>The correct procedure here is to use UniMaint, first and only (Steven,
>again correct me, if I am wrong). Clean it gradually, a little at a time.

That's a good suggestion if the changes appear to not be sticking. The
longer you take to run checkini, the more chance that the WPS will decide
to flush its internal buffers and overwrite a change.

Steven

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