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Date:	Sun, 22 Sep 2002 17:25:06 PST7
From:	"J. R. Fox" <jr_fox@pacbell.net >
Reply-To:	scoug-help@scoug.com
To:	scoug-help@scoug.com
Subject:	SCOUG-Help: Re: Zapping bogus file | outdated printer drivers

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> >without success. Can't zap it from the Maintenance Partition. Could
> >try a diskette boot . . . but of course this is still a protected name.
> >UniMaint did not seem to offer any obvious solution. I could install
> >BLACK HOLE, which I had used back in Warp 3 days, if that would work.
> >Any suggestions ?

Steven replied:

> LPT2 is a protected name because you are loading print01.sys. REM out
> print01.sys and reboot and you should be able to delete the lpt2 entry
> because it will no longer be protected. Black hole is not a solution in
> this case.
>
> OS/2 is not supposed to allow a file named lpt2 to be created while
> print01.sys is loaded, but I've seen it happen. I suspect it is a defect
> in the VDM subsystem, but I can't prove it.

Thanks, Steven. I get the Digest version of this List, so it is always received a day
or so late, vis-a-vis when the posts go on. At the meeting, Steve Carter mentioned a
Hex Editor solution that sounded kinda hairy, but would probably let you get at most
such things. And Rollin relayed the method I actually used -- a boot from BOOTOS2
diskette set -- which worked. I did not know why, but from your message now I do.

I'll use the shredder for the discontinued printer objects.

Jordan

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