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SysMaint
Copyright 1993, 1994 by Carry Associates
SysMaint is an OS/2 PM program to display and manage *.INI files and
all Extended Attributes. It is distributed by Carry Associates, 990
Ironwood Court, Marco Island, FL, 33937-4458. Telephone number is
813-642-9126. The application was written by and is supported by
Larry J. Martin. You can obtain Technical support by calling the
number above, by leaving an Email on Compuserve for 72662,3616 or for
the same ID in the OS2AVEND Forum Section 1.
SysMaint is an extension of IniMaint and shares many of the same
files with IniMaint. Therefore, some of the discussion below will
appear to apply to IniMaint rather than SysMaint. However, because of
the close relationship between the two programs, the discussion
applies to both programs. SysMaint and IniMaint also share some
common files such as documentation files, the same help file and the
same API DLL. In order to ease compatibility problems with those who
are using IniMaint, these common files will still start with ini...
rather than the expected sys....
The cost for SysMaint is $49.95 for a single user license and $499.00
for an unlimited corporate license. There is a $7.00 shipping and
handling charge to ship a diskette. Payment can be made via a check
drawn on a US bank, we will invoice against a corporate purchase
order or we will charge either a Visa or MasterCard credit card.
If you are already a licensed owner of IniMaint you can upgrade to
SysMaint for $25.00.
All of the upgrade amounts above are for a single license, the cost
to upgrade a corporate license is 10 times the appropriate single
license fee.
When SysMaint extracts the Extended Attributes from a file or
directory, the Extended Attributes are placed in a file that has an
internal structure and organization that is very similar to the OS/2
INI files. Therefore, when the user is viewing a set of Extended
Attributes, the appearance of the information is very similar to what
you would see when editing an INI file. This makes the discussions
below, which often refer to INI files, equally applicable to files
which contain Extended Attributes.
WARNING WARNING WARNING WARNING WARNING WARNING WARNING WARNING WARNING
SysMaint gives you the ability to make virtually any change you want
to any of the INI files or any of the Extended Attributes in your
OS/2 environment. Making changes to these files must be done with
care because you can do serious and unpredictable damage to your
environment. It is STRONGLY SUGGESTED that you insure that you have a
usable backup of any INI file or Extended Attribute that you modify in
any way.
WARNING WARNING WARNING WARNING WARNING WARNING WARNING WARNING WARNING
The enclosed is Version 3.3d of SysMaint and has the following known
problems and/or incomplete features:
1. The Initial Dialog cannot be dismissed using the Enter Key, the
Mouse must be used.
2. If the Groups Dialog is displayed, a new Group is selected and
then OK is selected without actually making any changes to any of the
Groups or the Applications in a Group, then the Last Group Displayed
is not updated and a subsequent use of the Groups Dialog will revert
back to the previous Last Group.
3. There is no Help available for the standard OS/2 New File Dialog.
REPORTED COMMENTS OR PROBLEMS
The following items are problems that have been reported, but cannot
be reproduced or comments that I have received from one or more
users. Any assistance on the problems or additions to the comments is
more than welcome.
1. It was pointed out that although the Cursor in the Value MLE can
be an Insert Cursor, there is no way to Insert information. My
response is that the only way to change the length of a Value is by
using the Replace Value Dialog because changing the expected length
of an INI Key Value can cause unusual and unexpected errors. I
further responded that the only way to change the cursor is to
change it System wide, therefore, changing it only when it is in the
MLE is a non trivial problem and I have not attempted to do it even
though it leaves the apparent conflict between the appearance of the
Cursor and the actual effect when a key is depressed.
INSTALLATION
To install the this version you must:
1. Run the Install program that is on the supplied diskette and
follow the instructions in the Readme and as displayed by Install.
2. You may optionally add the entry: SET INIMAINT= to your CONFIG.SYS
file specifying the path and filename of an INI file that you want
SysMaint to use to store it's operational information. If this entry
is not found in the Environment, SysMaint will store it's operational
information in the OS2.INI file.
GETTING STARTED
If you did not obtain your copy of SysMaint to address a specific
problem or you are not familiar with INI files, Extended Attributes
and the kinds of things that SysMaint allows you to do with them,
then it is strongly suggested that you review the Getting Started
entry in the Help file along with the other General Help subjects.
OPERATION
The application can be run in either of two modes. Normal Mode will simply
run the application in the normal manner, starting with the INI File that was
current that last time the Application was shut down. Tools Mode will run a
specifc function and, once that function is complete, the application will
automatically exit.
TOOLS MODE
The Install Program created a Tools Folder. This Folder contains an Icon for
each of the Tools that is appropriate to this application. In order to run a
specific Tool all you need to do is click on the appropriate Icon. If the
Tool starts with a Menu, for example Copy, you will see the Menu appear on
the Desktop and the Tool will execute once a Selection is made. If the Tool
involves a Dialog, for example Repair INI File, the Dialog will appear on
the Desktop and the Tool will terminate as soon as the Dialog is dismissed.
If the Tool simply does some function, for example Backup the Desktop, then
the function will run and then terminate.
The purpose of the Tools is to make it much easier for the user to use the
various features of the application without having to navigate through all of
the Menus. There is no difference between running a feature via the Tools and
selecting it from the Menu while running in Normal Mode. The Tools run the
exact same EXE file as the Normal Mode does, the only difference is that the
Tools pass a parameter to the EXE file telling to to run in Tools Mode and
which Tool to run.
NORMAL MODE
To run SysMaint simply start it by clicking on the SysMaint.EXE file
or start it from the Group to which it has been added. When SysMaint
first comes up, it will default to editing the INI file that is
identified by the system as the user INI file. This is normally
C:\OS2\OS2.INI. The name of the current file is always displayed in
the TITLE bar of the main window.
SysMaint can also be started with an initial INI file specified on
the command line. This allows SysMaint to be started with a new file
by using the command line, but also allows for it to be started by
dropping a file on the ICON on the desktop or double clicking on an
INI file, once the association is set up.
SysMaint will locate the window in a default location, but you can
move and or size the window as you choose. When SysMaint is shut
down, it will remember the file that it was currently working with as
well as the size and location of the window and will restore all of
these the next time it is run.
There are a number of SysMaint functions which will take some time
to execute. For example, the maximum length Key Value that SysMaint
will load into the Key Value Window is 60,000 bytes. Since each line
only displays 8 bytes, this comes to 7,500 lines and it takes well
over a minute. There are other similar types of functions,