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- From: ojtv@zombie.oulu.fi (Olli Vuolteenaho)
- Subject: Re: Growing os2sys.ini file
- Message-ID: <1992Dec16.210049.16242@ousrvr.oulu.fi>
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- Organization: University of Oulu, Finland
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- References: <1992Dec16.173331.18526@ornl.gov>
- Date: Wed, 16 Dec 1992 21:00:49 GMT
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- MCBROOM R C (rm3@ornl.gov) wrote:
- : In article <4668@copper.Denver.Colorado.EDU> rvaniwaa@copper.denver.colorado.edu (Ronald J. Vaniwaarden) writes:
-
- : Some others reported various things getting changed in this process.
- : Particularly program icons being changed to data. I've had a similar instance
- : although I can't swear that cpyini was responsible. My unzip program somehow
- : became associated as a datafile for Mathcad. The only way I found to
- : straighten things out was to use native dos tomove unzip.exe to a floppy
- : boot OS/2 from a floppy run chkdsk /f to clear the EA's reboot and bring unzip
- : back. The proper way to modify the associations still escapes me even after
- : reading a few postings and the "guide".
- :
- : One thing I can definitely trace to cpyini is that the menu heading for the
- : OS/2 editor now has a special character in it that wasn't there before.
- :
-
- Cpyini also sometimes changes the titles (not real names) of
- directories. This can be a nuisance if the directories are used by the
- system (like C:\OS2, for example) - there apparently is no (simple) way
- of restoring the original title.
-
- Olli
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