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  • Subject: Re: Format DASD?
  • From: John Earl <johnearl@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
  • Date: Thu, 02 Sep 1999 08:42:18 -0700
  • Organization: The PowerTech Group

Jessica,

This isn't the official way, not the fastest, but you could log on to Network
Neighborhood with *ALLOBJ authority and drag QSYS.LIB into the Windows recycle
bin.   That would pretty well do it  :)

jte

T. Jessica Miller wrote:

> I have a system that needs to be 'wiped clean' and I do not see the best way 
>to
> do this.  Is there a way to 'format' the drive so that I can do a fresh 
>install
> of OS/400 and be rid of all the old libs, usrprfs, docs, etc.?
>
> Thanks!
>
> Jessica
>
> "Stone, Brad V (TC OASIS)" wrote:
>
> > Hello all!
> >
> > I recently got a mail from a user of one of my tools and he wants it to
> > accept the CCSID of 5035.  Now, the only place I am moving data from their
> > machine is into a temp file that I create on the fly in QTEMP.
> >
> > Does anyone have any ideas of how this can be done?  I looked into the CCSID
> > parameter of CRTPF, but it says it ignores this field on *DATA type files.
> >
> > Would the ICGDTA keyword have anything to do with it?  It wasn't quite clear
> > what this does from the help text.
> >
> > I guess what is happening is when I copy their data into my temp file,
> > certain text must be getting corrupted since I am not using DBCS files.
> >
> > Thanks!
> >
> > Bradley V. Stone
> > BVS/Tools
> > http://www.bvstools.com
> >
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