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@Date: Mon, 13 Oct 2003 19:43:20 +0200
Subject: Re: New installation/recovery
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Klaus Roeckerath, M.D. wrote:
> ** Reply to message from Herbert Rosenau  on
Sat, 11 Oct 2003
> 10:53:35 +0200
> 
> 
> -=> At least a question to you:
> -=> Why does you need so many different drives?
> 
> Herbert,
> 
> thanks very much for your explanations. It seems this LVM gives you some
> flexibility "Warp" didn't have. The reason I have so many
drive letters is
> merely for historical reasons. There are still programs I use on the various
> drives which I installed when I had no consistant backup concept. Now I have
> all my relevant applications on one drive which I backup regularly. I simply
> hesitate to reinstall the older programs because I can't find the respective
> updates anymore. If I could, I could reduce the number of drive letters.

So you CAN remove the drive now. With OS/2 there is only ONE, exactly 
one thing that may chain up an application to a drive it was 
installed: That is it is a WPS object! But during install a new system 
it iseven uninstalled.

So whenever you have applications you don't like to install from 
scratch do the following steps after you'd installed a new system and 
has copied the binaries (folders and subfolders with theyr content) to 
its new location:

1. Open the drive object on the WPS
2. Open the drive the applications on you has loose the install
3. Open the folder where the executeable is (.exe/.cmd) is in:
4. clik on the .exe to get it selected
5. open the popup menue it owns
    - there is a menue named create program object
      click on it. That will popup a dialoge. In that dialoge
      - change the field name current text: programfile to something
        that makes clear what the program file (you'd opened the menue)
        will do.
      - select in the list below that field the location where the
        new object should be stored and press the button create
        or siply do a double click on the entry named as the location
        you likes to have it.
      - optionally: open the setting of newly created object and
        change it to the values you likes.


      Advanced hint: you may start to create some folders on your new
         desktop that will contain anything the system has not created
         during install but will likes to have already on the desktop
      Advanced hint: open any folder you likes as target for objects
      you likes to create at step 5 above. All open folders are
      listed as possible target for the create version.
      Advanced tip: before you creates a new object:
      - check the settings of the executeable (.exe)
        and change them to the best behavior you likes
      More advanced: if that object should open some specific
      data files open the assocation page and assign here each
      class listed and/or fill out the name field
      with either an extension (e.g. *.txt) or a file mask (e.g.
      read* or maybe with a full qualified name (e.g. makefile)
      You can assign multiple classe and multiple file namemasks

You can repeat step 4 and 5 multiple times to get different program 
objects, using the same ext - but with more or less different settings 
each.

When you have never done that you should play a bit around with this 
now to get a feeling how you can build your extended destop to fit 
your needs exactly.

The method above does NOT copy the exewcuteable but it creats an 
program objekt. This program object points still to the executebale 
you have it created from (you can if you have a need still the entry 
field named program on the topmost page of the settings to point to 
another program. But the step described makes it more easy to create 
them instead using templates.

Whenever you needs to differ exactly if it is a program object or a 
program file object:
a program file object has in its settings notebook a tab named file,
a program object has it NOT. The behavior differs in ONE point:
- pressing the menue entry delete:
- a program file object will remove the executeable it points to
- a program object does this never, it will delete only itself.

Now you may ask me: why not simply create a shadow of the executeabe?
The answer is simple: A shadow is only a representation of the 
original, even as it is located somewhere else. You can't change it 
without changing the object it points to. A program object can be
- deleted without affecting something else (like a shadow)
- own modified settings (incluing the icon it shows)
Multiple program objects can point to the same exe but have set 
individual settings and parameters.

Whenever you needs direct access to anything on your hard disk: create 
a folder and put shadows of the files in it. For executeables use 
program objects instead shadows! For data files and folders on disk 
use shadows.

This helps you to get your desktop to fit your needs better.

-- 
Tschau/Bye

Herbert Rosenau
EDV Beratung & Programmierung
Lindelbrunnstr. 53a
76767 Hagenbach

Tel: 49-7273-919416
Fax: 49-7273-93072                     http://www.dv-rosenau.de/


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