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Date:	Thu, 29 Jul 2004 03:46:56 PDT7
From:	Peter Skye <pskye@peterskye.com >
Reply-To:	scoug-help@scoug.com
To:	scoug-help@scoug.com
Subject:	SCOUG-Help: UniMaint help needed

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Gary Granat wrote:
>
> Peter,
> IIRC, the recommended procedure is to make necessary repairs
> followed ASAP by a restart. The reason for this is to ensure
> that your updates are written to the permanent INI files.

Yeah, but for some reason that doesn't work. I did a big-time test of
this a few weeks ago before contacting Jim Reed, and UniMaint wouldn't
save the changes. That's when Jim told me about the buffer problem.

The weirdest part is that if I run UniMaint Repair and then exit the
program and immediately run it again, everything looks fine. But if I
wait a while and run it, or if I reboot, the "fixed" stuff has returned.

There are three places where the OS2*.INI info is kept: 1) in memory,
2) in OS2*.!!!, 3) in OS2*.INI. Changes are made to the memory info,
which is occasionally written to OS2*.!!!, which is occasionally renamed
as OS2*.INI. I think. Where the failure occurs is unknown.

Since an immediate rerun of UniMaint shows that the fixes have "stuck",
the info in memory apparently has been fixed. For some reason the
changes aren't making their way to OS2*.INI.

- Peter

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