On Wed, 25 Sep 2002 14:40:30 -0500 Michael Kaply <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Nicky Morrow wrote: > > I do a lot of testing and reload the os often. I really really hate > > apps that I have to reload in order to get them working again...it just > > shouldn't be necessary to reload apps when you reload the os. > > You are definitely living in a theoretical dream world. If you format > the boot drive, you are going to lose data. > > Reloading the OS is NOT something most people do all the time! > > The answer is to back up your CONFIG.SYS when you reinstall. > > And as far as apps that don't need change to CONFIG.SYS, that's Windows. > Harder to do on OS/2
In this instance I support an idea Nicky Morrow proposed (via email): | Have __all__ OS/2 applications use one environmental variable | | set USER_HOME=x:\home\base | | The applications would install __all__ their .INI or .DAT or | whatever files into *that* directory (which is *not* on the | OS/2 boot drive). Then, although the boot drive itself might | get reformatted (for instance, to install MCP2 on a machine | that had been running Warp), __all__ previously installed | applications can be "re-identified" by simply adding the | above environmental variable value to the new config.sys Of course, it is kinda late to have __all__ existing applications do this. But that should not prevent putting in such an "easy-to- allow-os-change" support facility into those applications which *today* are still being worked on. mikus (with thanks to Nicky Morrow)
