About the Repository Notebook "Rules" Pages

The ten Rules pages of the Configuration Image Facilities settings notebook give you the ability to:

• Designate files to be included and excluded when you save a copy of your computer's environment (the Include and Exclude pages);
• Designate scripts to be automatically executed before and after you save or restore an environment (the Execute pages); and,
• Designate files to be left unchanged when you restore an environment (the Preserve page).

You can designate file names in two ways on the Include and Exclude minor tabs of this notebook: fully qualified (using the exact drive, path, and file name); and by pattern matching (using the ? and * wild card characters), also called Regular Expressions. Each method has its own page, and you can use both methods simultaneously.

Example 1:

To tell PMImage to leave the existing CONFIG.SYS file unchanged when restoring a saved environment, enter the following on the Preserve page of the settings notebook:

C:\CONFIG.SYS

Example 2:

To tell PMImage to save all the .INI files presently located in C:\MYDIR when saving an environment, enter the following on the second page of the Include tab (the Regular expressions page):

C:\MYDIR\*.INI