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- How do I update from version 1.0/1.1 to 1.2?
-
- TimeGuardian 1.2 has been completely revised and improved by many
- new features. There are at least twice as much features as in the
- old versions! Unfortunately this requires that you have to change
- something at your already existing datas. I am very sorry for that,
- but I could not fix these problems another way.
-
- I would suggest you to print this file and then do the update step
- by step as described below. It it is very important to do the whole
- update to get a corectly working new program package!
-
- 1. Replace the old binary files:
- I recommend you to use the Installer. This ensures that you won't
- miss any files later on.
-
- For an update *without* the Installer, please read the appropriate
- chapter of the documantation. There you get a list what to do.
-
- 2. The main program TimeGuardian will be started from the Installer-
- script. Select the desired values for the new features of Time-
- Guardian 1.2 . You may enter the desired filename or value or
- leave the string gadget empty. After startup the default values
- will be inserted for the new features.
-
- You have to enter the following new items:
-
- - menu 'Prefernces->Cron Setup':
- -> Log History
- -> Cron Task Priority
-
- - page 'Timer'
- -> Cron Table -> Current
- ( the path of your ols CronTable will appear at 'Default' )
-
- - page 'Special'
- -> Once a week
- -> Once a month
-
- Please refer to the new documentation for the meaning of these new
- items.
-
- 3. If you are using multiple configurations you have to load them with
- 'Open...', change them as described at 3 and then save them with
- 'Save as...' over the old config files.
-
- 4. Now you have to load all files which contain the onoff cycles into
- an editor. These are the files which names you selected at 'OnOff'
- in the preferences program.
-
- You will notice that the first entry differs from all others. It
- misses the point of time the computer has been turned on for the
- first time. Just make an entry in the first line, so that it looks
- like all the other lines. Use for date the same as the entry for
- the point of time your computer has been turned off contains.
- And for time something shortly before that point of time.
- This could read like this:
-
- before:
-
- Resets: 0
- System turned off: Thu 25.Aug.94 13:37
-
- System turned on : Thu 25.Aug.94 13:46
- Resets: 0
- System turned off: Thu 25.Aug.94 13:46
-
- afterwards:
-
- System turned on : Thu 25.Aug.94 13:30
- Resets: 0
- System turned off: Thu 25.Aug.94 13:37
-
- System turned on : Thu 25.Aug.94 13:46
- Resets: 0
- System turned off: Thu 25.Aug.94 13:46
-
- After changing that save the text file and edit the next one, if
- you have more than one 'onoff' files.
-
- 5. If you have datafiles from different years ('94,'95) you should
- concatenate them to one file together. You may use a texteditor
- for that, too, or you can use the 'join' command:
- e.g.:
-
- join sys:Test/LogFile.94 sys:Test/LogFile.95 TO sys:Test/LogFile
- delete sys:Test/LogFile.94
- delete sys:Test/LogFile.95
-
- or
-
- join Work:TG/OnOff.94 Work:TG/OnOff.95 TO Work:TG/OnOff
- delete Work:TG/OnOff.94
- delete Work:TG/OnOff.95
-
-
- The new Timeguardian doesn't use the suffix anymore. If you
- have datafiles from only one year, you simply rename them:
- e.g.:
- rename sys:Test/LogFile.94 sys:Test/LogFile
- or
- rename Work:TG/OnOff.95 Work:TG/OnOff
-
- Change all names of existing data files in this way!
-
-
- 6. If you have written your own CronTable files, you may change the
- character for the comments. Due to a little mistake it was the ';'
- selected for comments and not '#' as the real Un*x syntax uses.
- This was changed for version 1.2, both, the '#' and ';' signifies a
- comment now. Several enhancements to the CronTable syntax were made.
- Please refer to the new documentation for these features. But don't
- worry, a very powerful graphical user interface for the CronTables
- has been developed to make it easier for you to generate your own
- CronTables.
-
-
-
- Have fun with the new TimeGuardian!
-