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PM UNDELETE for OS/2 Version 1.01 11 Oct 93
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PM UNDELETE is a GUI program for a quick recovery of deleted
files.
OS/2 offers a feature which allows the recovery of deleted files.
However, the control program for this feature is a command line
driven tool with poor comfort: The OS/2 program UNDELETE.
PM UNDELETE is an easy-to-use PM program to undelete deleted files
to their original directory or to the system's TMP directory.
Deleted files may be also be sent to Nirwana, that is, their
deletion is made permanent. (This corresponds to the /F option of
the OS/2 UNDELETE command.)
PM UNDELETE uses the OS/2 program UNDELETE.COM to do its job.
This means that PM UNDELETE does not rely on a specific version
of OS/2 nor does it use undocumented system calls or other
quirks!!! This feature is sometimes called 'compatibility'.
This program is FREEWARE and may be distributed together with
this documentation to all OS/2 users!!!
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___ Installation _________________________________________________
Copy PMUNDEL.EXE and PMUNDEL.ICO (or another icon you prefer) to
a directory in your PATH.
If you want to, you may install a program object for PMUNDEL.EXE
on the desktop.
Be shure that the variable TMP is set in the OS environment
and that it points to a directory for temporary files.
(e.g. SET TMP=C:\TMP )
Be shure that the variable DELDIR is set in the OS environment
for all drives on which the recovery of deleted files is desired.
Refer to your OS/2 user manual (online) for more information.
(e.g. SET DELDIR=C:\TMP\DELETE;D:\DELETE )
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___ Usage ________________________________________________________
Start PMUNDEL
On some systems it may be required to start the program with the
command line option "/refresh" to obtain a proper display refresh.
(See also 'bug list' below!)
PM UNDELETE displays all drives which support the recovery of
deleted files (that is, all files specified in the DELDIR variable).
Select a drive and press the refresh button or double click the
drive. Refresh may be clicked whenever another process has erased
files and the list of files being deleted (for the selected drive)
should be updated.
PM UNDELETE displays all files which can be recovered.
Select the desired files (extended multiple selection).
By pressing the appropriate button you can undelete the selected
file(s) to their original directory or to the TMP directory.
'Deleting files forever' means that the files may not be
recovered any longer.
'Deleting files forever' means that the files may not be
recovered any longer. (Corresponds to the /F /A options of the
OS/2 UNDELETE command)
It is sooo easy.
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___ Bugs _________________________________________________________
PM UNDELETE Version 1.00 had a bug which caused an incorrect
display of the dialog window after having spawned the OS/2
UNDELETE program.
Because the program is a REXX script passed to the DrREXX window
handler, this behaviour may be caused by the DrREXX handler
(which is itself part of the EXE).
Fortunately, this bug did not occur on my own system so that I
wasn't aware of it.
A workaround for this bug (since it is now documented, hence I will
call it a feature...) is to start the program with the command line
option "/refresh".
(e.g. pmundel /refresh )
This will redraw the dialog window after a call to OS/2 UNDELETE.
Check it out, whether you need this option or not.
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___ Acknowlegdements _____________________________________________
PM UNDELETE is a REXX program designed and created by the superior
and phantastic DrDIALOG/DrREXX environment written by David C.
Morill.
Thanks to him, he has done a great job!!!
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___ Usage ________________________________________________________
Comments, criticism and postcards may be sent to:
affie@sns.neuphilologie.uni-tuebingen.de
Snail Mail:
Ralf Hauser
Moltkestr. 45
72072 Tübingen
Germany