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- From: cvadrtbc@vmsb.is.csupomona.edu (Srikanth Viswanathan)
- Subject: Re: BACKUP's and the Desktop
- Organization: California Polytechnic University, Pomona
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- Date: Mon, 27 Jul 1992 02:45:00 GMT
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- In article <ednstras.711934727@kraken>, ednstras@kraken.itc.gu.edu.au (Michael Strasser) writes...
- >cvadrtbc@vmsb.is.csupomona.edu (Srikanth Viswanathan) writes:
- >
- >>In article <92202.102131BRYAN@wvnvm.wvnet.edu>, Jerry Bryan <BRYAN@wvnvm.wvnet.edu> writes...
- >>>between the INI files and desktop directories. Remember that INI files
- >>>are hard to backup with standard facilities such as BACKUP and COPY because
- >>>they are always open. You have to run the backup out of CONFIG.SYS
- >>>before they are opened, which in turn means you have to boot to back them
- >>>up. I hate to boot when it really is not necessary. The other concern
- >
- >>You really don't have to. Someone on Fidonet a long time ago, posted
- >>this very useful tip for backuping INI files:
- >
- >>CALL=C:\OS2\XCOPY C:\OS2\*.INI C:\BACKUP\*.INI
- >
- >This method is also described in the third redbook (on PM and WPS). The
- >method given there has
- >
- > RUN=C:\OS2\XCOPY C:\OS2\OS*.INI C:\OS2\INSTALL\
- >
- >(Can some please explain the difference between CALL and RUN in CONFIG.SYS?).
-
- Both of my suggestion and your work, but your suggestion is better because
- it uses RUN instead of CALL. I think CALL just runs it and waits for that
- process to end before it continues to the rest of the config.sys (that's
- why you are able to put a CALL=C:\CMD.EXE and it will load before the WPS).
- RUN however, runs the programs and then continues, it doesn't wait for the
- process to end, in other words, it multitasks this process, so you could
- have like 10 RUN statements in your config.sys and OS/2 will run them all
- at the same time. At least that's the way I understood this. Can anyone
- confirm or shoot me down on this?
-
- Srikanth
-