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- From: mig@cunixb.cc.columbia.edu (Meir I Green)
- Subject: Re: cant shutdown my system
- Message-ID: <1992Jul29.235802.25264@news.columbia.edu>
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- Organization: Columbia University
- References: <1992Jul28.030423.21113@muddcs.claremont.edu> <1992Jul28.235705.23848@news.columbia.edu> <1992Jul29.052055.16026@muddcs.claremont.edu>
- Date: Wed, 29 Jul 1992 23:58:02 GMT
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- In article <1992Jul29.052055.16026@muddcs.claremont.edu> teverett@jarthur.claremont.edu (Toby Everett) writes:
- >In article <1992Jul28.235705.23848@news.columbia.edu> mig@cunixb.cc.columbia.edu (Meir I Green) writes:
- >>
- >>That's not it. Sometimes I can get OS/2 to shut down after a refresh, other
- >>times it just won't. This is similar to the icons which stay cross hatched
- >>bug. Anyway, OS/2 isn't out of memory, since I have 20 Mb installed, and
- >>OS/2 sees 16 Mb. Anybody think that a new version of GT16MB will come out
- >>which will work for me? My ISA machine has an AMI BIOS which is reporting
- >>all 20 Mb. Oh well, I don't plan on keeping the extra 4 Mb anyway. It is
- >>useless to me (although I could use it's worth in money).
- >
- >Open a Windows List. Select all bars except OS/2 2.0 Desktop. Right click
- >on one of them. Click Close. Open a Windows list. If the only program
- >running is OS/2 2.0 Desktop, then try Shutdown. If not, you're SOL and try
- >a three finger salute.
-
- Somebody please tell Boca that there should be a kill option for OS/2 programs
- as well as for DOS programs (close). This would give OS/2 2.0 a lot of
- additional functionality and make it more robust. Reminds me of the ritual
- shutting down of Columbia's new Sun 4/490s to get rid of the phantom unkillable
- processes :-)
-
- Does anyone have an email address to Boca for OS/2 suggestions?
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