Subject: [os2genau_digest] No. 1358
From: Digest <deadmail>
To: "OS/2GenAu Digest"<deadmail>
Date: Tue, 12 Sep 2006 00:00:59 EST-10EDT,10,-1,0,7200,3,-1,0,7200,3600

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Monday 11 September 2006
 Number  1358
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Subjects for today
 
1   Backing up warpcentre settings : Ed Durrant <edurrant at bigpond dot net dot au>
2  Re:  Backing up warpcentre settings : brianb at kdfisher dot com dot au
3  Re:  software giveaway : Gavin Miller <gmi12896 at bigpond dot net dot au>
4  Re:  Backing up warpcentre settings : Ed Durrant <edurrant at bigpond dot net dot au>
5  Re:  software giveaway : David Shearer <dsh43871 at bigpond dot net dot au>
6  Re:  Backing up warpcentre settings : Mike O'Connor <mikeoc at internode.on dot net>
7  Re:  Backing up warpcentre settings : Michael/Gail Peters" <mandgpeters at bigpond dot com>

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Date:  Mon, 11 Sep 2006 07:21:00 +1000
From:  Ed Durrant <edurrant at bigpond dot net dot au>
Subject:   Backing up warpcentre settings

Hi does anyone know of a way of backing up the warpcentre settings ?

 From time to time my Warp 4 CP2 FP5 system loses all the icons from the 
Warpcentre and it's a real pain to have to add them back manually.

If there is actually a file that contains the information, I'll add it 
to os2.key so that it is backed up with the achiving feature at every 
boot, as this problem usually occurs after I have had to restore from a 
previous archive.

Any suggestions ??

Cheers/2

Ed.
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Date:  Mon, 11 Sep 2006 10:25:16 +0930
From:  brianb at kdfisher dot com dot au
Subject:  Re:  Backing up warpcentre settings

Ed,
Hi mate.

Do this:-

KEYFILE:C:\OS2\DLL\dock0.cfg
KEYFILE:C:\OS2\DLL\dock1.cfg
KEYFILE:C:\OS2\DLL\dock2.cfg
KEYFILE:C:\OS2\DLL\dock3.cfg
KEYFILE:C:\OS2\DLL\dock4.cfg
KEYFILE:C:\OS2\DLL\dock5.cfg
KEYFILE:C:\OS2\DLL\dock6.cfg
KEYFILE:C:\OS2\DLL\dock7.cfg
KEYFILE:C:\OS2\DLL\dock8.cfg
KEYFILE:C:\OS2\DLL\dock9.cfg
KEYFILE:C:\OS2\DLL\dock10.cfg
KEYFILE:C:\OS2\DLL\dock11.cfg
KEYFILE:C:\OS2\DLL\dock12.cfg
KEYFILE:C:\OS2\DLL\dock13.cfg
KEYFILE:C:\OS2\DLL\dock14.cfg
KEYFILE:C:\OS2\DLL\dock15.cfg
KEYFILE:C:\OS2\DLL\scenter.cfg

You may have more or less dock##.cfg files.
Get all you have.
-----------------------------------------
Brian Butler
System Administrator
brianb at kdfisher dot com dot au

                                                                                                                                                   
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Hi does anyone know of a way of backing up the warpcentre settings ?

 From time to time my Warp 4 CP2 FP5 system loses all the icons from the
Warpcentre and it's a real pain to have to add them back manually.

If there is actually a file that contains the information, I'll add it
to os2.key so that it is backed up with the achiving feature at every
boot, as this problem usually occurs after I have had to restore from a
previous archive.

Any suggestions ??

Cheers/2

Ed.
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Date:  Mon, 11 Sep 2006 16:30:37 -0400
From:  Gavin Miller <gmi12896 at bigpond dot net dot au>
Subject:  Re:  software giveaway

Hi Kev,

Yep sad day indeed, but I'm thinking seriously about doing the same.  
Ecs is too unstable now.  Anyone who disagrees (and I'm sure there's a 
few) obviously has the magic system that:
*   Boots every time (mine doesn't)
*   Doesn't need to revert to an archived desktop when something goes 
wrong (see Ed's latest post)
*   Doesn't turn itself off whenever it feels like it.  (mine does)
....and said people must also have advance degrees in CLI's in order to 
get all these ported apps to work, even IF the CORRECT instructions are 
supplied.

I'm not flaming anyone so please don't think I am and take offense.  I 
just know that at this stage non of the above has happened in Windows 
using the same hardware.  Just last week my system powered off during 
boot; every boot; just when I reaaly needed it for a presentation I was 
giving that week.  I'm sorry but all the great things that OS/2 (ecs) 
has over Windows is no good if it can't stay, or even become functional.

Right now I'm weighing up the options.  Do I cross over to the dark side 
on a system that I know works there, or do I spend up reverting to an 
all Intel system in the hope that that will solve the issues I'm 
having?  Your thoughts are welcome.

Cheers
G

Kev wrote:
> G'day all (and one),
>
> Well, all (and one), It's a sad day indeed, but today I finally ended 
> 11+ years with OS/2 / eCS.  It is no more for me.  Hence I have a 
> quite a lot of licensed software, registered shareware and some other 
> odd bits and pieces.
>
> Amongst my stuff I have originals CDs of ...
>
> eCS Preview, 1.0, 1.1 and 1.2 - all with registration keys.
> Warp Server v4 Advanced.
> I have a downloaded eCS 1.2r also
>
>
> Original CDs of ...
>
> Master of the Empire
> Trials of Battle
> Galactic Civilations
> Describe 5 Voyager
> Graham Utilities
> probably some other stuff tucked away there.
>
>
> Shareware Registration keys for ...
>
> PMView v 1.xx, v2.xx, v3.xx
> Xit
> Tonigy
> Larsen Commander
> Zoc
> Emtec FTP
> certainly other stuff I can't think of right now.
>
> All I'm interested in is seeing this stuff go to a good home, so it's 
> yours for the cost of pack n postage.   I'm in Perth (Western 
> Australia for those in the US).  There's plenty of other stuff there 
> too, so just enquire if you're looking for something specific.
>
> +61 8 9359 4570 - and we're on GMT +8.00 hours (or Hotel time for any 
> aviators out there)
>
> So long, and thanx for all the fish :-)
> Kev
>
>
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Date:  Mon, 11 Sep 2006 19:21:46 +1000
From:  Ed Durrant <edurrant at bigpond dot net dot au>
Subject:  Re:  Backing up warpcentre settings

Thanks Brian,

   I don't suppose dock*.cfg works does it ??

Cheers/2

Ed.

brianb at kdfisher dot com dot au wrote:
> Ed,
> Hi mate.
> 
> Do this:-
> 
> KEYFILE:C:\OS2\DLL\dock0.cfg
> KEYFILE:C:\OS2\DLL\dock1.cfg
> KEYFILE:C:\OS2\DLL\dock2.cfg
> KEYFILE:C:\OS2\DLL\dock3.cfg
> KEYFILE:C:\OS2\DLL\dock4.cfg
> KEYFILE:C:\OS2\DLL\dock5.cfg
> KEYFILE:C:\OS2\DLL\dock6.cfg
> KEYFILE:C:\OS2\DLL\dock7.cfg
> KEYFILE:C:\OS2\DLL\dock8.cfg
> KEYFILE:C:\OS2\DLL\dock9.cfg
> KEYFILE:C:\OS2\DLL\dock10.cfg
> KEYFILE:C:\OS2\DLL\dock11.cfg
> KEYFILE:C:\OS2\DLL\dock12.cfg
> KEYFILE:C:\OS2\DLL\dock13.cfg
> KEYFILE:C:\OS2\DLL\dock14.cfg
> KEYFILE:C:\OS2\DLL\dock15.cfg
> KEYFILE:C:\OS2\DLL\scenter.cfg
> 
> You may have more or less dock##.cfg files.
> Get all you have.
> -----------------------------------------
> Brian Butler
> System Administrator
> brianb at kdfisher dot com dot au
> 
>  
> 
> Hi does anyone know of a way of backing up the warpcentre settings ?
> 
>  From time to time my Warp 4 CP2 FP5 system loses all the icons from the
> Warpcentre and it's a real pain to have to add them back manually.
> 
> If there is actually a file that contains the information, I'll add it
> to os2.key so that it is backed up with the achiving feature at every
> boot, as this problem usually occurs after I have had to restore from a
> previous archive.
> 
> Any suggestions ??
> 
> Cheers/2
> 
> Ed.

> 
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**= Email   5 ==========================**

Date:  Mon, 11 Sep 2006 20:37:55 +0000
From:  David Shearer <dsh43871 at bigpond dot net dot au>
Subject:  Re:  software giveaway

Gavin Miller wrote:
> Hi Kev,
>
> Yep sad day indeed, but I'm thinking seriously about doing the same.  
> Ecs is too unstable now.  Anyone who disagrees (and I'm sure there's a 
> few) obviously has the magic system that:
> *   Boots every time (mine doesn't)
> *   Doesn't need to revert to an archived desktop when something goes 
> wrong (see Ed's latest post)
> *   Doesn't turn itself off whenever it feels like it.  (mine does)
> ...and said people must also have advance degrees in CLI's in order to 
> get all these ported apps to work, even IF the CORRECT instructions 
> are supplied.
>
> I'm not flaming anyone so please don't think I am and take offense.  I 
> just know that at this stage non of the above has happened in Windows 
> using the same hardware.  Just last week my system powered off during 
> boot; every boot; just when I reaaly needed it for a presentation I 
> was giving that week.  I'm sorry but all the great things that OS/2 
> (ecs) has over Windows is no good if it can't stay, or even become 
> functional.
>
> Right now I'm weighing up the options.  Do I cross over to the dark 
> side on a system that I know works there, or do I spend up reverting 
> to an all Intel system in the hope that that will solve the issues I'm 
> having?  Your thoughts are welcome.
>
> Cheers
> G
>
> Kev wrote:
>> G'day all (and one),
>>
>> Well, all (and one), It's a sad day indeed, but today I finally ended 
>> 11+ years with OS/2 / eCS.  It is no more for me.  Hence I have a 
>> quite a lot of licensed software, registered shareware and some other 
>> odd bits and pieces.
>>
>> Amongst my stuff I have originals CDs of ...
>>
>> eCS Preview, 1.0, 1.1 and 1.2 - all with registration keys.
>> Warp Server v4 Advanced.
>> I have a downloaded eCS 1.2r also
>>
>>
>> Original CDs of ...
>>
>> Master of the Empire
>> Trials of Battle
>> Galactic Civilations
>> Describe 5 Voyager
>> Graham Utilities
>> probably some other stuff tucked away there.
>>
>>
>> Shareware Registration keys for ...
>>
>> PMView v 1.xx, v2.xx, v3.xx
>> Xit
>> Tonigy
>> Larsen Commander
>> Zoc
>> Emtec FTP
>> certainly other stuff I can't think of right now.
>>
>> All I'm interested in is seeing this stuff go to a good home, so it's 
>> yours for the cost of pack n postage.   I'm in Perth (Western 
>> Australia for those in the US).  There's plenty of other stuff there 
>> too, so just enquire if you're looking for something specific.
>>
>> +61 8 9359 4570 - and we're on GMT +8.00 hours (or Hotel time for any 
>> aviators out there)
>>
>> So long, and thanx for all the fish :-)
>> Kev
>>
>>
 
>
> 
> =============================================
My experience is that some systems are fine - take my desktop now 2 
years old a pentium 4 using .0 - an sis chipset.  However i ran into 
trouble recently with newer laptops using sata and irqs above 15 - at 
the moment acpi is not very useful on these newer systems.  
Neverthesless i found a really good laptop which i am writing this email 
on a new compaq v5000 presario which works fine with the latest ecs beta 2
even with the built in wifi 54g - using genmac 1.7.  the only thing not 
working is the pcmcia -due to a high irq.

David

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Date:  Mon, 11 Sep 2006 21:10:13 +1000
From:  Mike O'Connor <mikeoc at internode.on dot net>
Subject:  Re:  Backing up warpcentre settings

Ed Durrant wrote:
> Thanks Brian,
>
>   I don't suppose dock*.cfg works does it ??
>
> Cheers/2
>
Hi Ed,

That's all current Unimaint uses for its desktop backups -- with path of 
course! :-)
As in :

"<path>\ZIP.EXE" -j "<backup-path>\SYSWC01" "<bootdrive-usually-but not 
necessarily, if current desktop located on another 
drive/disk>:\OS2\DLL\DOCK*.CFG"
"<path>\ZIP.EXE" -j "<backup-path>\SYSWC01" "<bootdrive .....as 
above>:\OS2\DLL\SCENTER.CFG".

restored with :

"<path>\UNZIP.EXE" -o SYSWC01 -d <bootdrive .. as above>:\OS2\DLL\

Regards,
Mike

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Date:  Mon, 11 Sep 2006 21:42:11 +1000
From:  "Michael/Gail Peters" <mandgpeters at bigpond dot com>
Subject:  Re:  Backing up warpcentre settings

Ed,
  There is a component of Compline.zip on the OS/2Site that
does this.....RAR32 compression. The background is explained.
I am not at my computer now and the Lipitor is helping me forget
the details...I think :-)

Mike.
----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Ed Durrant" <edurrant at bigpond dot net dot au>
To: <os2genau at os2 dot org dot au>
Sent: Monday, September 11, 2006 7:21 AM
Subject:  Backing up warpcentre settings

> Hi does anyone know of a way of backing up the warpcentre settings ?
>
> From time to time my Warp 4 CP2 FP5 system loses all the icons from the 
> Warpcentre and it's a real pain to have to add them back manually.
>
> If there is actually a file that contains the information, I'll add it to 
> os2.key so that it is backed up with the achiving feature at every boot, 
> as this problem usually occurs after I have had to restore from a previous 
> archive.
>
> Any suggestions ??
>
> Cheers/2
>
> Ed.

> 

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