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- From: mjn@sbmiclr.cs.sunysb.edu (The Sixth Replicant)
- Subject: Re: How to save WPS settings going 2.0 --> 2.1b?
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- Date: Tue, 12 Jan 1993 23:49:40 GMT
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- In article <1itmft$36f@agate.berkeley.edu> stanton@haas.berkeley.edu (Richard Stanton) writes:
- >Is this possible in any way? Two suggestions that might work are:
- >
- >1) Copy Os2.INI and OS2SYS.INI, then copy them back again after installing
- > 2.1b
- >
- >2) Use WPSBKUP
- >
- >Has anyone tried either of these (successfully)?
- >
- >Richard Stanton
-
- Well, negative results are informative, also. I tried (2), without success
- last night. I had 2.1b going with its rebuilt desktop. I used WPSRestore
- to try to restore my (carefully hand-crafted) desktop. When I re-booted,
- I got a white screen with a (functional) mouse cursor and nothing else. I
- had to hit the big red (well OK, it's white) button and do some major
- recovery activity.
-
- I'm skeptical that (1) would work better, since (2) should always do better
- than (1).
-
- Certainly it's possible that I had some other problem, but it looks bad for
- WPSRestore working for 2.1b.
-
- So I, too, am looking for a way to migrate the desktop to 2.1. I hate to lose
- all my settings and have to try to manually recreate them.
-
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- Marc Neuberger mjn@sbcs.sunysb.edu
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