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- From: vond@outb.wimsey.bc.ca (Alec Vondjidis)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware
- Subject: Re: Uninstalling Stacker.. grrrr...
- Message-ID: <vond.03qf@outb.wimsey.bc.ca>
- Date: 8 Sep 92 19:29:56 PDT
- Organization: Wizard Online
- Lines: 42
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- On Tue 8-Sep-1992 7:24p, H.C. Pulley wrote:
- HP> In article <Bu8AGz.BGs@usenet.ucs.indiana.edu>
- HP> ntaib@silver.ucs.indiana.edu (Iskandar Taib) writes:
- HP> >
- HP> >Whats the approved method of doing this? I've had three self-avowed
- HP> >pirates call me in the last two weeks who installed Stacker on their
- HP> >drives and had the machine crash. They couldn't un-install it. The
- HP> >first thing I asked was "Do you have the manual?" "Ummm.. no..."...
- HP> >Resisting the urge to yell "You immoral software pirate you..." I had
- HP> >to tell them that I didn't know how to do it since I don't have Stacker
- HP> >myself.
- HP> >
- HP> >Is there a quick, approved way of un-stacking a drive?
- HP>
- HP> Remove the stacker entries in your config.sys. Then delete the
- HP> stackvol.sys
- HP> file from the unstackered drive. Et voila! No more stacker... (no more
- HP> data
- HP> but that's not my problem...).
- HP>
- HP> If you want to preserve the data then you probably want to back up the
- HP> stacker
- HP> data to floppies, do the above procedure, then restore the backup. It
- HP> probably
- HP> won't fit onto your drive now though... (again, not my problem...).
- HP>
- HP> Harry
- HP>
- HP> --
- HP> hcp@csx.cciw.ca | This message | It takes all kinds,
- HP> hcpiv@grumpy.cis.uoguelph.ca | released to the | and to each his
- HP> own.
- HP> -----------------------------------| PUBLIC DOMAIN. | This thought in
- HP> mind,
- HP> Stay away from the DOS side, Luke! | | I walk alone.
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- There is also the SREMOVE command in the Stacker subdirectory . . .
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- (FYI: The stacvol files are +S +H +R. Either DOS 5's attrib command will be needed to remove these attributes, or a utility such as PCTOOLS)
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