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Date:	Fri, 21 Jun 2002 11:04:26 PST7
From:	"J. R. Fox" <jr_fox@pacbell.net >
Reply-To:	scoug-help@scoug.com
To:	scoug-help@scoug.com
Subject:	SCOUG-Help: Re: changing the FP Archive of record

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Rocky wrote:

> How does one clear the space used by the archives from the application of FixPaks? I remember that one must commit (assuming one is satisfied) to the applied FixPak, right?

> Also, some of the other fixes (device driver Fix Pak, IIRC) were backed up to a
> selected directory. Is this safely deleted, again assuming one is satisfied or
> is there a commit process here, too? Thanks.

Rocky's question reminded me of something related. I forget the right nomenclature, but you wind up with (at least) backups of the original files that were changed by FP application, and the last set of files that were replaced by the last FP to be put on, one of which is called "Archive," and one of which is confusingly called something else. These are registered somehow as being there, at the storage location originally designated. We recently ran into a situation where a later FP could not be applied, because those directories had been removed to save some space in that partition. How & where is this file location info
recorded, and how does one go about either changing it, or doing away with the requirement to have it in the first place -- much as the status quo would have been at the time the earliest FP was applied ?

Jordan

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