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Date:	Thu, 29 Jul 2004 11:28:46 PDT7
From:	"Steven Levine" <steve53@earthlink.net >
Reply-To:	scoug-help@scoug.com
To:	scoug-help@scoug.com
Subject:	SCOUG-Help: UniMaint help needed

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In <41093AD1.575D@peterskye.com>, on 07/29/04
at 10:58 AM, Peter Skye said:

>Let me ask Jim Read again to see what he says. Last time he thought it
>was the heap size limitation (not buffer which I mistakenly said
>earlier).

Could be. INI file data is held in shared memory, which in OS/2 can be a
scarce resource. That said, my INIs are not small:

7-29-04 9:57 2,661,099 196 OS2.INI
7-29-04 9:45 253,953 137 OS2SYS.INI

and I don't have any of the hangs you describe. Of course my procedures
differ quite a bit from yours.

>Jim did mention XFix, which I have not tried.

XFix does a subset of what the other cleaners do. Since this is Open
Source, the code is at:

xworkplace\src\Xfix\xfix.cpp

if you want to see what it does. The checkini code is on Netlabs too.
The operational part of the xfix code is very similar to the equivalent
parts of checkini.c. The benefit of using one over the other is that
since they are not the same code, they may react differently to the same
corruption. One may crash while the other corrects the problem.

>I downloaded XWorkPlace but couldn't figure out a way to unzip it (it
>isn't zip or rar), and I didn't want to install it yet (it's a WarpIN
>package).

You can use wic which is command line wpi unpacker.

>Hmm, I should prep to do this.

>Using the fancy new SCOUG search engine

I prefer to say resurrected. :-)

>page with fixes made by Steven) I typed in "process dump" and found an
>article by a writer guy named Steven Levine who said to follow the

The article is a bit dated. See:

<http://home.earthlink.net/~steve53/os2diags/ProcDumpRef.txt>

>Time to fire up that fancy new SCOUG search engine again . . .

The checkini source is not that easy to find with Google:

ftp://ftp.netlabs.org/pub/misc/hektools.zip

If you want the xWorkPlace source, you should set up a cvs client. I
don't think there are zip or wpi distributions.

Steven

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