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Date:	Thu, 26 Sep 2002 20:30:02 PST7
From:	Harry Chris Motin <hmotin@attglobal.net >
Reply-To:	scoug-help@scoug.com
To:	scoug-help@scoug.com
Subject:	SCOUG-Help: uninstall of RSJ

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Steven,

This is part of what Butch said:

>After talking with StevenL on Scoug-help chat tonight, I came home intent
>in trying all that Steven told me to do. I started boot, hit alt-F1 at
>the right time and got a list of choices. Using the command prompt
>resulted again in scrolling pages full of c prompts. Upon alt-F1 a second
>time, I tried the #1 choice at the bottom of the page that indicated the
>use of the initial config.sys at boot time., which is essentially what
>Steven was going to have me do with the boot diskettes. Eureka, the
>system booted. Lots of stuff missing, but I know it must be somewhere.

OK! I am doing some interpreting here, so I may be off base. Based on
what Butch wrote, the first time he hit ALT-F1 he got a list and he
selected the commandline choice. Therefore, he got a bunch of C:
prompts. That is especially true, if he also used DIR

On the second ALT-F1, Butch stated that he selected the initial
CONFIG.SYS choice. Nowhere did he say that he selected to go to the
Maintenance Desktop choice!

However, EVEN IF he did (unfortunately) go to the Maintenance Desktop,
he may still be able to recover his desktop and settings. According to
my OS/2 book, when you choose the Maintenance Desktop, the system saves
the current information, the current files, in C:\OS2\ARCHIVES\CURRENT\

It's possible that the system saved his CONFIG.SYS, AUTOEXEC.EXE,
OS2.INI and OS2SYS.INI, etc., files as indicated by my OS/2 book. In any
case I would do a search for these files, using C:\OS2\APPS\PMSEEK.EXE.
I would open that application, put a check on a C:\ partition search and
search for those possibly saved (and renamed) files as follows:

CONFIG*.*
AUTOEXEC*.*
OS2*.*

I would search for those file name types everywhere on C:\, using
PMSEEK. If I found them, I would use the latest ones, rename them back
to their correct names and use them. It's worth a shot, I think.

HCM

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Steven Levine wrote:
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> In <3D93C37D.AB0F6B2C@attglobal.net>, on 09/26/02
> at 06:39 PM, Harry Chris Motin said:
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> >Since you and Steven are a little disconnected about your plan of attack,
>
> That's an understatement.
>
> > A. Find the latest CONFIG.SYS file on your system before you tried
> >installing RSJ
>
> > B. Or, REM out the lines in the CONFIG.SYS file that you created as a
>
> I think you missed to part where he restored his orginal Desktop archive.
> Can you say: "bye bye installed applications?"
>
> >on the program. For example, if you install a SciTech Video driver, it
> >stores a copy of the CONFIG.SYS as CONFIG.SDD and on the boot drive
> >directory (C:\, for example), same spot as the CONFIG.SYS.
>
> This is one of the beauties of Unimaint or Robosave or any of the backup
> tools other than the one built into OS/2. You can take a full Desktop
> backup, as needed, without rebooting.
>
> Steven
>
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