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Date:	Fri, 11 Oct 2002 18:21:33 PST7
From:	Harry Chris Motin <hmotin@attglobal.net >
Reply-To:	scoug-help@scoug.com
To:	scoug-help@scoug.com
Subject:	SCOUG-Help: config.sys

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By the way, Butch, you used the term, "EE", for the "Enhanced Editor".
Could you be refering to the "Enhanced Editor" from Wayne Swanson and
PillarSoft Software?

If you are, that is NOT the same as the "OS/2 Enhanced Editor". Use the
OS/2 Enhanced Editor, not the Enhanced Editor from PillarSoft.

The OS/2 Enhanced Editor is usually called "EPM", not "EE". People often
refer to the PillarSoft editor as "EE"

OK! You will find the OS/2 Enhanced Editor, EPM, in the C:\OS2\APPS\
directory. It is the executable file, EPM.EXE.

OK?

HCM
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Harry Chris Motin wrote:
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> Butch,
>
> If you really, really, truly, truly loaded the same file into the 2
> editors, then they are identical. They only look, or display,
> differently because of the the word wrapping issue.
>
> You can tell if you loaded the same file. Look at the very top of each
> editor in the blue strip area. It will tell you right there the file
> loaded. In your case it should say:
>
> C:\CONFIG.SYS
>
> because you are booting from the C:\ drive. Look and find out. If you
> find the same file in both editors, then you are only seeing display
> differences in those editors (word wrap versus no word wrap)!
>
> >It was mentioned earlier to use the system editor because of a wrapping
> >issue in EE, correct?
>
> NO! NO! Use the OS/2 Enhanced editor, not the OS/2 System Editor. You
> want to see each and every individual line in the editor. You DO NOT
> want to see long lines word wrapped into 2 or more lines. With the OS/2
> Enhanced editor it will display every line as exactly 1 line, no matter
> how long it is. In the System Editor you can not do that. You get word
> wrapped lines.
>
> The idea here is that, when you manually edit the CONFIG.SYS, you want
> to maintain the integrity of each and every line. You do not want to,
> say inadvertently, combine 2 lines together, because you used the
> "Delete key" when you should not have. With the Enhanced Editor and each
> line displayed individually as one line, you can see any mistakes, when
> you make them. If indeed you use the System Editor and lines are word
> wrapped, you may not notice a mistake. That is especially true, because
> with word wrap, you may not get it right with respect to where 1 line
> ends and the next one begins. You may inadvertently cut off a line in
> the middle, say, because of the word wrap confusion.
>
> OK! Use the OS/2 Enhanced Editor.
>
> Finally, Butch, make a copy of your CONFIG.SYS file and save it
> elsewhere. PLEASE DO IT, BEFORE YOU EDIT THE FILE. That way you can
> restore it and go back to a working CONFIG.SYS, should ANYTHING GO WRONG
> WITH YOUR EDITING. Lot's could go wrong. You could inadvertently make a
> mistake. Someone could give you some editing instructions (like from RSJ
> Software), that MIGHT not work. Hopefully, what RSJ tells you to do will
> work. But there is ALWAYS a small chance it will not. Different systems
> behave differently. RSJ may not have throughly scoped out a particular
> problem. Etc. Etc. Therefore, protect yourself. MAKE A COPY, ALWAYS AND
> FIRST!!
>
> HCM
>
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> eyeleica@lvcm.com wrote:
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> > I've been strapped for computer time lately and am still in the midst of
> > limited time, but in the few moments I have had this morning, I started
> > looking at the two editors in the system, Enhanced Editor and the os/2
> > system editor. I pulled up config.sys for the c drive with EE and
> > config.sys from the d drive with the system editor. The config.sys files
> > are entirely different! Is that correct? Should they be different in
> > their contents? Now I am asking basic, stupid questions, but that is where
> > I am coming from right now. Sorry for these type questions. It was
> > mentioned earlier to use the system editor because of a wrapping issue in
> > EE, correct? I am thinking of going on with what I have and reinstalling
> > the couple of programs I installed----warpzip and mozilla. Mozilla was no
> > problem reinstalling and updating. In fact, it was installed by Steven in
> > July, I updated the version without mishap. I found that there were files
> > for warpzip, but no installation file. I found the uninstall exe and
> > uninstalled it. I can now reinstall it and basically, I will be back
> > where I was before trying to install RSJ. Then the fun with RSJ should
> > begin :)
> >
> > butch
> >
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