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Date:	Thu, 26 Sep 2002 13:58:42 PST7
From:	"J. R. Fox" <jr_fox@pacbell.net >
Reply-To:	scoug-help@scoug.com
To:	scoug-help@scoug.com
Subject:	SCOUG-Help: Improvising: Tape in lieu of a WPS Bak.

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> >tape strikes me as even more drastic a solution. Perhaps just a selected
> >list of files could be overwritten / backlevelled this way (from a
> >diskette boot, of course), if I knew which ones to choose ? Might that
> >not be another route to the same destination ?

Steven replied:

> This is an alternative. If you just restore the contents of the \Desktop
> tree and os2.ini and os2sys.ini, you will do what a typical desktop
> restore does.

The whole tree, or just portions of it ? I find the following, relevant-seeming directories:

\Desktop\Connections\Printers
\Desktop1\Connections\Printers
\Desktop1\OS!2_Sys\Printers
\Desktop1\Printers

(And why mess with parts of the tree that aren't relevant ?) All these directories are "empty", but it remains
to be seen whether the tape backup s/w will let me write / overwrite them.

The actual Printer driver files, of course, reside in their own directories under \OS2\DLL.

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 the
"available" list for various app.s at Print time. Still haven't found where the No Delete flags reside, though.

Jordan

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