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|    Martin Foster to August Abolins    |
|    OpenXP 5.0.40 released    |
|    29 Jul 19 12:00:00    |
      MSGID: 2:310/31.3@fidonet dae237c7       REPLY: 2:221/1.58@fidonet dad8954b       PID: OpenXP/5.0.40 (Linux) (x86_64)       CHRS: ASCII 1       Hello August!              * 28.07.19 at 20:16, August Abolins wrote to Martin Foster:               AA>>> For an "upgrade", wouldn't I have to at least save copies of the        AA>>> customised XPOINT.COL file and the GLOSSARY.CFG before unpacking?               MF>> That's not really necessary as none of your existing configuration        MF>> files in your OpenXP directory will be over-written.               AA> I am now up to .40              :-)               AA> BUT.. as I was extracting, it *did* prompt me if I wanted to        AA> overwrite existing files including the glossary.cfg.              None of the files which were overwritten were config files or database        files or messagebase files, etc, etc.               AA> I didn't have any customizations in glossary.cfg yet, so I let it        AA> proceed to replace everything.              The copy of glossary.cfg which was overwitten was the one in the        "samples" directory, it was not the copy in your main OpenXP        directory.               AA> Meanwhile, I think xpoint.cfg is overwritten,              Nope, that's impossible, as there isn't a xpoint.cfg in the ZIP        package.               AA> but I don't recognize any major difference from the previous one        AA> you sent me with your colourizations.              The custom colour config is contained in xpoint.col :)              I feel sure everything went well so don't worry about it :-)              Regards,       Martin              --- OpenXP 5.0.40        * Origin: Bitz-Box - Bradford - UK (2:310/31.3)       SEEN-BY: 1/123 15/2 154/10 203/0 221/0 226/17 227/114 229/354 426       SEEN-BY: 229/1014 240/5832 249/206 317 400 280/464 5003 292/854 310/31       SEEN-BY: 317/3 322/757 342/200 396/45 423/120 712/848 770/1 2452/250       PATH: 310/31 280/464 229/426           |
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