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Date:	Fri, 27 Sep 2002 10:16:50 PST7
From:	"J. R. Fox" <jr_fox@pacbell.net >
Reply-To:	scoug-help@scoug.com
To:	scoug-help@scoug.com
Subject:	SCOUG-Help: Re:

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> >I take it you mean the \Desktop section that ZTree shows as being empty,
> >or mostly empty, although it really isn't ?

Steven replied:

> That's the one. How many files you find depends on what you have
> installed. My actually contains 400 files.

Are you just counting the sub-dir.s, or if not, what are you using to observe the invisible contents ?

> >Here it is:
>
> >Found Printer 'IBMPCL5L' LPT2 EPOMNI3.Stylus COLOR 1160,PSCRIPT.Lexmark

{snip}

> What's supposed to work is:
>
> prndrv -d "LASERJET.HP LaserJet Series II"
>
> Is that how you used the command?

Exactly, although I specified "EPSONPRT.EPSON" as the target, the only driver identified with the Stylus Color 800 printer. I could
understand if this somehow took out all of the _Epson_ drivers by mistake, but it nuked several Lexmark ones as well -- everything on
LPT2 got toasted.

[Off-topic aside: Did you know that Goodwill and many other such donation org.s now have a *long* list of stuff they will not accept,
and that prominent on that list is all manner of computer gear ? Apparently, something to do with tougher impending landfill
regulations, come disposal time -- or so they said. I got turned down various places, trying to get rid of that printer. Finally
found a Salvation Army station that looked to be manned by escapees from Folsom, and apparently they had not gotten the word, or did
not care.]

> But there must still be stuff about it in the OS2 system files,
> >which UniMaint isn't showing me. (Or I don't know where to look for it.)
>
> Select os2sys.in and use Find -> Any Key Value and do a case insensitive
> search for something like "optra" or whatever you are interested in.

O.K.

> >I'll be needing some of those other ways.
>
> You can do manually to os2sys.ini what prndrv does automatically. I'm
> still not convinced that prndrv can't do the job for you.

Convinced or no, I wouldn't give it another chance to trash the joint.

> Since you have Unimaint, do a Portable Desktop Backup before you restore.
> Then you can restore any individual objects that you might want to
> recover. The Portable Restore has problems with large restores, but it's
> pretty good at restoring a couple of objects at a time.

I hadn't heard about this before, which suggests that the "whole system transplant" function claimed for Portable Restore is apt not
to work.

> >I subsequently found a function in UniMaint for purging unused printer
> >entries from the OS/2 system files, which I can try out on the next
> >go-'round. Sounds like it might take care of these things showing up on
>
> Perhaps.

Well, I hope it works. This would be a lot easier than doing it manually.

> > Still haven't found where the No Delete flags reside, though.
>
> That's because I've been off doing personal R&D all day. :-) Sometime in
> the last year I did something to break trap dumps on my main box. I had
> one of my rare traps and it was odd enough that I really wanted to take a
> dump.

Perhaps you'd like to rephrase that . . . . ;-)

Jordan

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