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Date:	Tue, 25 Dec 2001 21:18:41 PST7
From:	"J. R. Fox" <jr_fox@pacbell.net >
Reply-To:	scoug-help@scoug.com
To:	scoug-help@scoug.com
Subject:	SCOUG-Help: UniMaint's Desktop Backup

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Steven wrote:

> In <3C24E007.2EEA86C4@attglobal.net>, on 12/22/01
> at 02:33 PM, Harry Chris Motin said:
>
> >system. I think, however, that you can do a complete restore that way.
> >According to the UniMaint reader's manual, the desktop backup makes a
> >backup of the desktop and both INI files. Do you have a copy of the
>
> That is correct. SmartCenter is also backed up. The only minor design
> defect, IMO, is that config.sys is not included in the backup. It usually
> doesn't matter, but sometimes class loading will depend on LIBPATH values
> and these may change over time.

This definitely does not matter in my case, since I keep an (if anything, excessive) library of
prior CONFIG.SYS files, always making sure I have redundancy before a new change or install. btw,
I think you can specify a list of supplemental files to be restored, which could presumably include
Config if one wished.

Jordan

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