Damaged OS2 files

[Steve Wendt]

On Mon, 9 Oct 2000, Bill Wood wrote:

> One of the few thing about old Windows (not sure about Win9x) was
> that you could reload the system files right over the old ones to fix
> damage. And this was easy to do.
> 
> Every time I have tried something like this in OS2 I have slid right
> down the slippery slope leading to a complete reinstall and I don't
> remember why.

If you are referring to DLL files, there are two ways to do it:
1) boot to command line
2) use an unlock utility (look for lxlite on hobbes)

If you are referring to the binary INI files, use method 1 above.  I use
ShiftRun, which means I don't have to fiddle with the Alt+F1 menu.