Have they given up?

[Steve Lamb]

Sunday, April 16, 2000, 7:28:42 PM, John wrote:
> Valid point but what do you mean about moving a program in OS/2 and breaking
> links? I don't move many programs now since my system is fairly settled, but
> if I do re-arrange things and move a folder to another drive, my shadows in
> WarpCenter and/or Launchpad are automatically updated.

    But the location of your data inside the programs is not.  Not moving
programs, but the data they depend on is moved, it breaks.  Shadows are nice
for the desktop people but give me symlinks since shadows do nothing for real
file-system maintenance.

> What situation are you describing where drive letters are hard-coded? I am
> not denying, I am simply puzzled by your cryptic description.

    Look in your config.sys and imagine now moving things of your tiny primary
drive onto the nice new, 36Gb drive you bought from Best Buy (Asssuming Big
Blue ever got OS/2 to recognize large drives) for a whopping $320.  All of a
sudden every C: you see in there is a failure.

    I've only done that twice this year.  Replaced two aging 4.2Gb Quantum Big
Foots (Big Feet) with a single Maxtor 8.4Gb drive on my Winbox and replaced
two ancient 1Gb SCSI drives (/full height/ SCSI at that) with a Maxtor 10.6Gb
HD.  My partitions went to hell those days.  Oddly enough Windows did ok
because I was able to DD the drive over and SYS it.  I had gotten everything
major onto two partitions before that anyway.  Linux I just did a reinstall
since I was running on a 5th generation upgrade and thrice crashed system on
the SCSI drives.  Wanted to clean out the cruft.  Even with that and with
partitions completely different than what I had before I copied most of my
config files from /etc over without change and they worked.

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