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Date:	Thu, 26 Sep 2002 21:31:44 PST7
From:	"Steven Levine" <steve53@earthlink.net >
Reply-To:	scoug-help@scoug.com
To:	scoug-help@scoug.com
Subject:	SCOUG-Help: uninstall of RSJ

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In <3D93DDB5.2CECA56A@attglobal.net>, on 09/26/02
at 08:30 PM, Harry Chris Motin said:

>This is part of what Butch said:

I read all of that and I remember what I had him write down during the IRC
chat and I have the IRC hardcopy logs. :-)

>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

IIRC, this is a known problem with some Warp4 kernels when booted to the
command line. If he had asked me before proceeding, most likely, I would
have had him install the 10/26/00 kernel after figuring out what he was
running.

>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!

That's true. He never said he did that. He said he selected the option to
restore the original desktop (i.e. option 0 on the menu).

>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

His life might be much simplier if he had Selected the Maintenance
Desktop. This is assuming that Current did get popuplated.

>OS/2 book, when you choose the Maintenance Desktop, the system saves the
>current information, the current files, in C:\OS2\ARCHIVES\CURRENT\

My book says that too. Butch says it didn't happen for him. I can
believe that. The built-in desktop restore is not reliable, IMO. It's
also possible he's not looking in the right place. He's not describing
his actions all that clearly and he makes up word for things as he goes so
I'm never exactly sure what he has done. :-)

>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.

I'm going to have to find some time to experiment with the built-in
Desktop restore. It will be interesting to see if Current gets populated.
With Unimaint it's easy enough to have a guaranteed recovery fallback.

Steven

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