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- From: mikel@networx.com (Mike Lempriere)
- Subject: Re: SHIFTRUN (Was OS2SYS.ini file size: Interim solution.)
- Message-ID: <1992Dec9.180651.8661@networx.com>
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- References: <OLENDER.92Dec4091516@vivaldi.cs.colostate.edu>
- Date: Wed, 9 Dec 1992 18:06:51 GMT
- Lines: 35
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- Kurt Olender (olender@vivaldi.cs.colostate.edu) wrote:
- [stuff deleted]
- : There is now an easier way. IBM has just released (as of Dec. 3) on
- : software.watson.ibm.com, a new EWS package called SHIFTRUN.
- :
- : If you put
- :
- : CALL=SHIFTRUN.EXE CMD.EXE /K
- :
- : in your CONFIG.SYS, then you will get a full-screen command prompt ONLY if you
- : are holding down the LEFT SHIFT key during the boot.
- :
- : If you don't hit the LEFT SHIFT, the CALL times out and a normal boot
- : proceeds.
- :
- : So you don't have to muck with your CONFIG.SYS putting in and taking
- : out CALL statements beforehand.
- :
- : You can, of course, conditionally run any other text-mode full screen
- : application you want (4DOS, TINYED, whatever) in the same way.
- :
- : I would imagine it will show up on ftp-os2.nmsu.edu:/pub/os2/2.0/ibm/ews
- : shortly.
- :
-
- YES! How excellent! What a trvial program to write! Why didn't I think
- of it?
-
- Booting from floppy over-and-over-and-over-and-over while messing with
- those damn Trident drivers wasted (I kid you not) several hours all told
- waiting for that damn slow floppy, and swapping disks. (I had to boot
- from floppy several dozen times over several weeks before I figured out
- that Selective Install had buggered a device= statement in my config.sys).
-
- Now if only our stupid SLIP connection was working this week...
-