This is the readme.txt file for BaR version 2.12
19 April 1994

BaR is a PM-based front end for OS/2's backup and restore programs which 
provides some enhancements.

To run BaR you need the following:

   - BaR.exe
   - VROBJ.DLL
   - Rexx support
   - OS/2's backup and restore

Optional files are:

  - BaR.ico 
	(if you don't care what BaR.exe looks like or don't plan on
	 creating an object)
  - BaRHlp.txt 
	(if you don't care about text-based on-line help)
  - e.exe 
	(used to edit backup log files)

Installing and Starting BaR Front End

  Type barstall and follow the instructions.

  It is *strongly* recommended that you install BaR with the BaRstall
  script for two reasons:  1) it will attempt to figure out the date
  format for your system (essential if you use the date parameters in
  Backup and Restore); 2) it will create subdirectories beneath BaR's
  directory for all the hard drives and partitions on your system (used
  with the INI backup feature).  If you don't have either the date format
  in your BaR.ini file or the appropriate subdirectories, BaR will default
  to the format mm-dd-yy for the first and fail for the second should you
  choose to backup specific INIs.  N.B. I also recommend that you install
  BaR in its own, unique subdirectory, primarily in order to avoid
  clutter.

  Once you've installed BaR, move the vrobj.dll file to a directory
  specified in your libpath in config.sys.  If you already have a copy
  of Watcom's VX-Rexx DLL, you may delete the one from this archive,
  provided the date of the existing copy is not earlier than the one in
  the archive.  BaR 2.12 requires the DLL for VX-Rexx 2.0.

  If you chose not to have BaRstall create a WPS object and would like
  to start BaR from anywhere, first ensure that the path in which it is
  installed is added to the path statement in config.sys, and then add
  the environment variable, SET BAR_DIR=[directory], in config.sys.  Of
  course, [directory] should be replaced by the directory in which BaR
  resides.

  Feel free to contact me with bug reports and/or suggestions at

        G9026163@mcmail.cis.McMaster.CA