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Message   Steve Winn    Doug Connor   FDX problem   May 13, 2007
 8:47 AM  

Re: FDX problem

> Scotty -> Azone wrote:
>  S> Re: FDX problem
>
>  >> Hi Steve
>  >> I've Got a small problem and maybey you can help
>  >> seems  if i go into vconfig from the vadv32 front end , and then ed
>  >> somethi
>  >> , then exit ,  and go into dos prompt and run vconfig.exe
>  >> My fdx path dissapears out of the configuration
>
>  >>  this is will reproduce many times over
>
>  >>   thought You could maybey look into this and see if maybey u can
>  >> figure out
>  >> why its doing it or make a debug version so that I can give u the
>  >> error code
>  >> it produces
>
>
>
>  S> Yeah Steve, mine and Matt's copy does it too
>
>  S> - Scotty
>  S>  Deep Space 69 BBS
> Sounds to me like you are running a NJM util that pedates
> Rolands changeing the FDX dir at an attempt to save space or(fuck up Neils
> programs).
> I ended up running vconfig from a batch file.
> but this is a cludge from wen I ran njm's vfido but
> varea also changes the fdx dir.
>
> Now adays I just go to vconfig after i run varea and
> redefine the fdx dir.
>
>
>
>
>
> :top
> e:
> cd \vabbs
> if exist e:\vabbs\vconfig.up goto top
> if exist e:\vabbs\vfido.up goto top
> echo >e:\vabbs\vconfig.up
> copy e:\vabbs\syspaths.sav e:\vabbs\syspaths.cfg /y
> attrib e:\vabbs\syspaths.cfg -r
> cd\vabbs\data
> for %%T in (net.*) do copy %%T e:\vabbs\logs\tmp%%T
> cd\vabbs
> vacfg.exe %1 %2 %3 %4 %5 %6 %7 %8 %9
> attrib syspaths.sav -r
> copy e:\vabbs\syspaths.cfg e:\vabbs\syspaths.sav /Y
> attrib e:\vabbs\syspaths.sav +r
> del e:\vabbs\vconfig.up

I'm thinking of adding an option in va32 to automatically backup/restore the
syspaths.cfg sorta like what I did for the statistics. So if the fdx does go
blank, it will restore the backup.

Steve


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