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>SRVREXX.EXE 18 3K 5-22-93* This small C program loads REXXINIT.DLL to
> allow you to run REXX execs when booted from
> diskette. Courtesy of Sam Detweiler (IBM).
> Anyone with details on how this is useful,
> please leave a message. (There are no DOCS.)
I used this routine quite a bit about a year ago. Sam had written
another routine that was an installable file system that allowed you
to attach a file system across a netbios lan so that it appeared as a
local disk. This routine was small and would fit on the OS/2 install
disks when in turn allowed you to install OS/2 across the lan rather
than from diskettes. It's a very fast install that way (~15-20 minutes)
and can be done unattended by using a response file to tailor it. There
are user exits before and after the routine that does response file
installs. I used SRVREXX to enable rexx so that I could use the post
install user exit to move files around so that I could also install
communications manager across the lan on the initial boot up of the
system.
When I used it I put the rexx dll's in the lib path on the diskettes
and used a "run=a:\srvrexx" statement in the config.sys to initiate
it. If there is a ".;" in your libpath statement you should also be able
to change to the directory where the dll's are and do a "detach
a:\srvrexx" to initiate it.
Since it is the only way to use rexx when booting from diskettes
,either the first two diskettes from the os2 install diskettes or from
a diskette built from something like SE20BOOT, I suspect that it will
come in handy from time to time. One of those things that you only need
once in a blue moon but really important when you do need it.
Felix
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