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Date:	Tue, 24 Aug 2004 02:25:08 PDT7
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Hi Sandy
Your idea of extracting the backup files to a floppy is not bad !
How about extracting to a CD if one / you have a CD Writer ?
Cheers, svob=EF

sshapiro@ucsd.edu on 24.08.2004 06:05:50
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Subject: SCOUG-Help: Desktop

In <200408231943.3548513.6@scoug.com>, on 08/23/04 =

at 07:43 PM, "Harry Motin" said:

>Sandy,
>I don't use UniMaint for destop backups, but I have the user manual
and I
>read the applicable section. Since you can boot to a commandline,
>perhaps you can search for the location of the single *.zip file that
>UniMaint uses to store your desktop information. If you can find that
>*.zip file, you will want to unzip it from a maintenance boot and
restore
> its contents. Inside that single *.zip file, you will find two more
>*.zip files. One contains the OS2.INI and OS2SYS.INI files. The other
>contains your desktop directory structure. You will want to restore
>both. Restore (unzip and copy) the OS2.INI and OS2SYS.INI files files
to
>?:\OS2 and restore (unzip and copy) the desktop directory to ?:\, where
>?: is your boot partition. Then reboot.

>The only problems I see are 1.) locating the UniMaint *.zip file, and
2.)
>unzipping from the commandline. UniMaint uses the first zip executable
>file found in the path statement of your CONFIG.SYS file to compress
>your backup. Perhaps that location also contains an unzip executable
>that you can use to unzip.
>HCM

Hi Harry,

I solved the problem, but I will file your suggestion away for future
reference.

It would be simple to copy the backup file to a floppy and then take it
to
another computer to extract the necessary files.

Thanks, Sandy

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