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In a msg of , Will Honea writes to Steve Mccrystal:
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Will,
 SM>> Better yet, IMHO, would be for the Netscape/IBM team to
 SM>> tell us upfront what they were going to overwrite (in each
 SM>> and every directory) so the time necessary to repair the
 SM>> damage could at least be minimized.
 WH> Steve, every upgrade I've done with NS/2 ha offered me the option
 WH> of archiving the current setup.  I tried it, it worked when I
 WH> backed one new install.  The only one it wouldn't work with was
 WH> the last beta before the GA.
It does that, and I've used the feature.  The problem here, at least for me, 
is that it doesn't archive *everything* - it does archive everything in the 
Netscape directory structure, but not the other files it overwrote. I used a 
variation of the technique you describe below to prove that, at least to my 
satisfaction.
 WH> More generally, I reset ALL archive flags on all drives before
 WH> making any 'unknown' installations, then do a DIR /AA  /s >
 WH> before doing anything else after the install.  There are a few
 WH> obvious files in the list that changed due to something other
 WH> than the install, but this gives you a pretty good idea of what
 WH> got changed by it.
Someone else suggested that, and it may be what I need to do, altho I'd much 
sooner see a list from IBM/Netscape.  They *know* what's in the new install 
ahead of time.
Seems like a lot of foolin' around to overcome what could be a very simple 
thing if IBM/Netscape would only tell us what they were going to overwrite, 
especially if the files didn't reside in the Netscape directory structure.  
In fact, I'd expect that as a matter of common courtesy. 
In my case, OS/2 boots from drive C, and Netscape resides on drive G. Do you 
know of a simple way to reset the archive bits on 3.5G of files, quickly? :^) 
 I guess there is probably some sort of SWEEP utility for OS/2, altho I don't 
remember seeing one. The technique also really fouls up incremental backups, 
something I rely on.
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