This is the readme.txt file for BaR version 1.0                 28 January 1994


BaR is a PM-based front end for OS/2's backup and restore text-based programs.


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

Create a directory in which BaR.exe and its icon file will reside.  Move 
Watcom's VROBJ.DLL into a directory specified by the libpath statement in
your config.sys.  You can put BaR in a directory in your path, but you will 
gain nothing by doing so since BaR *must* be started from the directory in 
which it resides.  There are three reasons for this:

        1) BaR looks for its INI file in the current directory; if it doesn't
           find it, BaR creates one.  
        2) If you select to have OS/2's backup log the backup session to a 
           file, that file will be written in the directory from which BaR 
           is started.  
        3) The Log menu items (Edit and Delete) expect to find those log files
           in the directory from which BaR is started.  

I could have have written the directory information to the OS2.INI file, but 
refrained from doing so primarily because it bothers me when other applications
write to my user file uneccessarily, and I can only surmise that others feel
the same way.

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

        G9026163@mcmail.cis.McMaster.CA

This address should be active for the next year or so.