Re: USB Config program

Sir:

Peter Brown wrote: 
Hi Bill

William L. Hartzell wrote: 
Sir:

I got peeves: The program is not able to accept that I may have USB drivers with fully qualified paths that lead to somewhere other
than \OS2 folder tree (USB resource manager, USB scanner, Gphoto driver, et al).


In putting the app together I just worked from the parameters supplied with the various usb readme files - the Default locations. Sorry, do not know anything about gphoto but if you want to email me any docs I'll look into adding that to the app.
<http://froloff.homeip.net/zips/GPhoto2_devpack.zip>
Obviously a few people will put devices in places other than the default locations so I will have to try to cater for that in a future
release.

I really would like to see the boot drive be though of as read only.
That would make me happy.
Another is if one changes one item and later undo the action, it
writes a new config.sys.


At the moment the (Global) Undo button is the only way to prevent changes being written - unchecking a change does not.

So, something else to address. 
Well, there is no simple exit like clicking upon the Xit button on the
title bar to quit the program, without the program writting the changes.
 No popup dialog as to what to do.

It also removes the previous lines and places
the newly written lines at the end of the file. Why can it not make changes in the current place in config.sys?

Something that may happen with time - But, while we are discussing this where would you want any new USB configuration lines placed in the config.sys? - and would that apply to everyone else?

Many users who have special requirements like my friend Mike Luther,
have arranged their config.sys to meet these dependencies.  In my case
it is plain vanity as to how the config.sys is arranged, since I no
longer have the AWE64 card installed (along with its requirement that
its driver be before the com.sys driver).  In place editing is the best
solution.  Add drivers after the existing USB drivers, pick one say
USBHID.SYS.
Adding the lines at the bottom may spoil the layout of a config.sys file but, other than that, there is no real reason not to.

There is a possibility that your required/correct effect could be achieved by a config.sys sort after adding the lines - an alternative
method to look at, possibly from the users end. 
I find that most config.sys sort programs do NOT take any dependencies
into consideration (But I've not check all of them or any recently).

There is a need to package
HCIMONIT.EXE, if allowed, as one cannot expect that the file has been retained after a recent update to USB base drivers (or remember that is where it may be found), or create a replacement.


Why? 
On systems other than those using the eCS update tool, the procedure is
to unzip the zip file into a temporary location and run the install
program.  The temporary location is then deleted.  Along with the
deletion goes that program.
The program does not get deleted by any usb updates - guess a user could delete it as "no longer required" though... Have to look at the
usb support docs and see what is allowed.

eCS users will probably find 2 or 3 versions of hcimonit.exe lying around their boot drive, the original install would have put hcimonit.exe in \os2\boot, the eCS Maintenance Tool will put an update in \os2 (think I've got the order right there) and eCS1.2 install will use \ecs\bin. Yes, the app checks the 3 most common "default" locations for hcimonit.exe and should issue an error if it cannot find a version at all.
There are still a lot of users who don't have eCS. 

All are fixable.


Yes, maybe even to your satisfaction Bill, given a little time and useful feedback :-) 
Happy new year.
--
Bill
Thanks a Million!
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