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Date:	Tue, 15 Oct 2002 15:55:23 PST7
From:	"Dr. Jeffrey Race" <jrace@attglobal.net >
Reply-To:	scoug-help@scoug.com
To:	< "scoug-help@scoug.com" > scoug-help@scoug.com >
Subject:	SCOUG-Help: C:\ question

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On Tue, 15 Oct 2002 12:47:36 PST7, Steven Levine wrote:

>The are backups created by the various install programs. If you
>understood what you were looking at, you could probably use one of the to
>restore your system to the state it was in just before you attempted to
>install RSJ. The files should cause no problems, but if you are not
>goting to attempt to restore, they are essentially useless so why not
>delete them. The choice is yours.

My MO:

I have a directory c:\rootos2

Every time I modify config.sys I copy it to this directory, renaming
it consecutively e.g.

C:\COPY CONFIG.SYS C:\ROOTOS2\CONFIG.NNN

I then go in with a text editor and comment the top of the file
to identify its delta from nnn-1.

I also have ROOTDOS for my DOS CONFIG.SYS and AUTOEXEC.BAT files,
treated similarly.

This procedure, which takes a bit of time (and which I read on
a list some years back) has saved my fanny many times. I back
up to floppy for archival purposes.

I also now have C:\NETWORK for my PROTOCOL.INI files treated
similarly.

Jeffrey Race

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