said:
Harry,
After I sent my first post to you, I realized I had not asked if you would
pass along any tips you have for installing wr08621 after installing
wr08610.
I would sure appreciate them because I have questions as you will see if
you read my reply to Steven's post on this thread.
Jack
>Jack,
>I assume that you are trying to upgrade MPTS on a Warp 4.0 system. I
>completed that upgrade on my system and it took a lot of effort, because
>I did not know about all the pitfalls.
>I recommend that you:
> 1. Do the upgrade ONLY on your fully up and running Warp 4.0 system. Do
>not try it from a diskette maintenance installation of Warp.
> 2. Fully backup your system before you do the upgrade and make sure
>that you can do a full restore of your system from that backup (back up
>and make sure that your backup/full restore method works)
> 3. Do the upgrade from full up Warp. You have to be verrrry careful
>using the base installation of MPTS (what you now currently have). The
>Select Install for MPTS does not work, if you have any lines in your
>CONFIG.SYS file that are over 256 characters. Any lines in the
>CONFIG.SYS over 256 will bomb out the install, not just those that deal
>with the MPTS upgrade.
>I have a series of REXX scripts that helped me get around this problem.
>Unfortunately, they use the REXX Library set of functions and you may
>not have that on your system. If you like, I could try to rewrite them
>to use other REXX functions, like the REXX Utility functions, instead.
>If successful, I could E-Mail them to you.
>HCM
>On Thu, 18 Dec 2003 22:50:53 PST8, jack.huffman@worldnet.att.net wrote:
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>>I boot to A:\ with updated utility diskettes, put the first WRO8610
>>diskette in the floppy drive, and type "mpts" as the instructions for
>>wr08610 specify. Immediately "SYS1804 The system cannot find the file
>>NLS" appears on the screen.
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>>NLS.DLL is loaded by the third utility diskette.
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>>Disregarding this fact, I added NLS.DLL to the first WRO8610 diskette.
>>Typing "mpts" at the A:\ prompt results in some floppy activity, Then I
>>get the A:\prompt again and I let it sit like that for a minute or two
>>like that.
>>
>>If someone can tell me what is going wrong, I would sure appreciate it.
>>
>>Jack
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