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Stephen Anderson wrote:
> I have a legal copy of Warp 4.0, the original version that was
> released around 1997/98.  What is required to bring it up to 4.52?
> Can this be done via installing the fixpacks etc, or id 4.52 a
> completely new version requiring me to purchase a new licence?

   You have to purchase a new license.  You can either buy Software 
Choice (SWC) or one from a third party resller "eComm Station"(eCS). 
Here in Australia I paid AU$300 for SWC which translates to about 
US$170.  The product from eCS is about the same.

   As you can read in some of the comp.os.os2 newgroups say advocacy or 
misc there is quite a dispute as to which one is better.  The consensus 
seems to be that eCS still has not come out with the superb 4.52 version 
which you now get with SWC (plus the 4.51 CDs to allow you to bridge 
over from 4.0 - 4.50 installations) but eCS has some additional software 
which may be very nice depending on what your requirements are.

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> On Mon, 03 Feb 2003 21:25:40 -0500, "David T. Johnson"
> <djohnson@isomedia.com> wrote:
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>>Victor Bien wrote:
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>>>  Because it is not possible to install version 4.52 onto an existing 
>>>desktop it is desirable to somehow automatically move the objects from 
>>>the old desktop over to the new. 
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>>I installed Warp 4.52 over the top of my Warp 4.51 desktop without any
>>problems.  At the end of the install, I did not have to reinstall any
>>apps or hardware.  The Warp 4.52 installer even recognized that my java
>>1.3.1 was more recent than the java that came with Warp 4.52 and left it
>>in place.  My installed printers were left in the 'printers' folder of
>>the 'previous desktop' folder.  To bring them over to Warp 4.52, I had
>>to drag each of them (the printer object, that is) into the new
>>'printers' folder in the 'connections' folder.  The only thing that the
>>Warp 4.52 installer messed up on was that it downleveled a couple of my
>>newer USB drivers (audio and MSD).  Other than that, it did a perfect job.
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>>I did the install by booting directly from the CD-ROM and then
>>installing onto the same drive that Warp 4.51 had been installed on.  (I
>>had a complete backup of the drive.)  The installer correctly selected
>>the Warp 4.51 drive as its target and gave me the option of formatting
>>the drive but recommended that I not do so.  The entire install took
>>about 30 minutes.
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