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Date:	Tue, 1 Apr 2003 14:27:01 PST8
From:	Ray Davison <raydav@charter.net >
Reply-To:	scoug-help@scoug.com
To:	scoug-help@scoug.com
Subject:	SCOUG-Help: Fresh vs. Fixpak

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Peter Skye wrote:

>Most of these are command line programs which I start using VIO (on
>Hobbes) so the window uses a specific font (usually either 10x6 or
>14x8).
>
Could you call them from a CMD file? That would be only one file in
startup.

>Near as I can figure, a subdirectory is just that. A folder is a
>subdirectory with some Extended Attributes attached to it, which makes
>it an object.
>
If you create a folder. a subdirectory is created in DESKTOP\OS!2_SYS.
But I don't think of those as "real" subdirectories, they seem to be
part of the desktop, and therefore fragile, and you don't have to have a
desktop to store files, and icons are files. I think it is safer to
store anything possible in real directories, in another partition.

>You don't like XCOPY? :)))
>
PM copy doesn't know anything about files, so it can't do anything
wrong. It is just a bit-for-bit replacement of the entire boot partition.

>(Neither do I. I use dSync. And DFSee also does this and is cheaper
>than Partition Magic.)
>
I know DFSEE works, Jan told me so, and I told Him I am waiting for him
to make DFSEE "pushbutton" like PM.

Ray

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