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Date:	Mon, 18 Dec 2006 21:02:43 -0800
From:	sshapiro@ucsd.edu (Sandy Shapiro)
Reply-To:	scoug-help@scoug.com
To:	scoug-help@scoug.com
Subject:	SCOUG-Help: ftp

Dear Colin -- Thank you so much.

That was exactly the problem. The file in the startup folder pointed to a
.BK1 file. I changed it in the properties notebook and now everything is
fine. (I had already tried renaming the backup file to a .CMD file, but of
course that didn't help.)

Sandy

In <45877057.20101@adelphia.net>, on 12/18/06
at 08:53 PM, Colin Campbell said:

>Sandy Shapiro wrote:
>> I did some mucking around in the FTP setup notebook (trying to get FTPN to
>> work), but it was unsuccessful. I have now put everything back to the
>> default settings, but when I boot I keep getting an error message:
>>
>> Cannot start
>> X:\tcpip\bin\tcpstart.bk1
>>
>> I don't know why it is looking for a backup file and not for the .CMD
>> file. I haven't been able to find anywhere in config.sys that is referring
>> to this file.
>>
>> Can someone tell me where I need to look or what it is I need to look for?
>>
>> Thanks,
>> Sandy
>>
>>
>Sandy,
>In the Startup folder (inside Local System), I see "TCP/IP Startup".
>Properties shows that TCPSTART.CMD is to be executed on my systems.

>Did you look at this place, to see if the Properties might have gotten
>changed? And did you rename or otherwise get rid of the .BK1 file?

>It seems odd that restoring to defaults would do this, but maybe that's
>the way it was "designed" (by a lazy programmer, perhaps?). Colin

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