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- From: sip1@ellis.uchicago.edu (Timothy F. Sipples)
- Subject: Re: What OS/2 needs
- Message-ID: <1992Jul25.011022.4846@midway.uchicago.edu>
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- Organization: Dept. of Econ., Univ. of Chicago
- References: <1992Jul23.201051.1525346@zeus.calpoly.edu>
- Date: Sat, 25 Jul 1992 01:10:22 GMT
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- In article <1992Jul23.201051.1525346@zeus.calpoly.edu> jemenake@zeus.calpoly.edu (Joe Emenaker) writes:
- >Well, after recently having OS/2 crash and refuse to boot... claiming it
- >was missing a DLL it needed, I'd say that OS/2 needs a utility that lets
- >you re-load some of the necessary files from the distribution disks. In
- >fact, going a step further, they could have the file look at some sort of
- >error-log and figure out for itself what files needed to be reloaded.
- >In fact, best of all would be if the program automatically ran whenever
- >OS/2 ran into a problem booting.
-
- It seems that the FAT default is _not_ to run AutoCheck, when it
- really should. I will be incorporating this advice in the forthcoming
- FAQ List, but you really should have:
-
- DISKCACHE=64,LW,AC:C
-
- in your CONFIG.SYS (with a larger cache size and/or more hard drives
- if C is not the only FAT drive on your system).
-
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