Pronews/2 - can it be moved to another partition?

Hi!

When I registered and installed Pronews/2 v1.59 cp120 it installed 
itself on my c: WSeB volume, a situation I don't like at all. 
Occasionally I hit upon a so serious bug/hang that I must resolve to a 
reformat + restore from tape (latest FULL backup + all DIFFs done before
the crash). If I have used Pronews/2 *after* the latest DIFF, then the 
changes in the msg database done after the DIFF would be gone forever 
down the bit bucket. Pronews/2 is not listed in the LIBPATH, PATH, 
DPATH, HELP or BOOKSHELF statements in config.sys: the only thing 
related to Pronews/2 are a few SET variables that don't contain any 
cat/file information. And in the Settings notebook there are only 
relative paths stated in various places, for example in the Directories 
tab there are three fields namely Article path, Decoded Path and Post 
Queue path which contains "\ARTICLES", "\DECODED" and
"\POSTQ". I was 
positively *glad* when I saw these relative paths instead of absolute 
ones: moving the whole pronews/2 tree should be a snap and changing the 
Pronews start icon should be equally easy.

So on the surface it should be easy to move the whole Pronews/2 shebang 
to a non-boot drive, for example g: which is HPFS386 and can be seen by 
all flavours of OS/2: WSeB, eCs 1.2 and ecs20rc4 with equal ease. Just 
do a MOVE C:\PRONEWS G:\PRONEWS /S /E /V /H /T /R and modify the 
Pronews/2 start icon to reflect the new startup path, i.e. 
g:\pronews\pronews.exe.


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On Mon, 28 Jan 2008 04:45:55 UTC, "Christer Jacobsson" 
<cribo.jacobsson@gaea.se> wrote:

> Hi!
> 
> When I registered and installed Pronews/2 v1.59 cp120 it installed 
> itself on my c: WSeB volume, a situation I don't like at all. 
> Occasionally I hit upon a so serious bug/hang that I must resolve to a 
> reformat + restore from tape (latest FULL backup + all DIFFs done before
> the crash). If I have used Pronews/2 *after* the latest DIFF, then the 
> changes in the msg database done after the DIFF would be gone forever 
> down the bit bucket. Pronews/2 is not listed in the LIBPATH, PATH, 
> DPATH, HELP or BOOKSHELF statements in config.sys: the only thing 
> related to Pronews/2 are a few SET variables that don't contain any 
> cat/file information. And in the Settings notebook there are only 
> relative paths stated in various places, for example in the Directories 
> tab there are three fields namely Article path, Decoded Path and Post 
> Queue path which contains "\ARTICLES", "\DECODED" and
"\POSTQ". I was 
> positively *glad* when I saw these relative paths instead of absolute 
> ones: moving the whole pronews/2 tree should be a snap and changing the 
> Pronews start icon should be equally easy.
> 
> So on the surface it should be easy to move the whole Pronews/2 shebang 
> to a non-boot drive, for example g: which is HPFS386 and can be seen by 
> all flavours of OS/2: WSeB, eCs 1.2 and ecs20rc4 with equal ease. Just 
> do a MOVE C:\PRONEWS G:\PRONEWS /S /E /V /H /T /R and modify the 
> Pronews/2 start icon to reflect the new startup path, i.e. 
> g:\pronews\pronews.exe.
> 
> 
> Cul8er alligator!
> gaea - feminist

I found it to be one of the easiest applications to move around.  I 
usually just copy the entire Pronews/2 directory, modify the program 
properties, and go on my way.  I then go back and delete the old 
directory.

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Chuck McKinnis