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- From: harris@garfield.catt.ncsu.edu (Michael Harris)
- Subject: Re: SHIFTRUN (Was OS2SYS.ini file size: Interim solution.)
- Message-ID: <harris.724190609@garfield.catt.ncsu.edu>
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- Organization: North Carolina State University
- References: <OLENDER.92Dec4091516@vivaldi.cs.colostate.edu> <1992Dec9.180651.8661@networx.com>
- Date: Sat, 12 Dec 1992 20:03:29 GMT
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- >Kurt Olender (olender@vivaldi.cs.colostate.edu) wrote:
- >YES! How excellent! What a trvial program to write!
-
- It is trivial... about 15 lines of code.
-
- >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).
-
- That is exactly why I wrote it. (Well, not for Trident drivers, but to debug
- video setups, etc.)
-
- Keep in mind that you are booting OS/2 off of your hard disk. There will be
- some things that you cannot do from a SHIFTRUN launched program that you can
- do when you boot from floppy. CHKDSK c: /f comes immediately to mind. Also,
- if you place the CALL= statement at the bottom of your CONFIG.SYS, any CALL=
- statements above it will be executed first. This may or may not be desirable.
- Mine is placed immediately after the IFS=C:\OS2\HPFS.IFS... line. Also note
- that all DEVICE= statements will be processed before CALL= statements. You
- can find the order in which these statements are processed somewhere within
- the online OS/2 Command Reference.
- ______________________________________________________________________________
- Michael Harris - harris@catt.ncsu.edu or harris@carvm3.vnet.ibm.com
- System Administrator, Computer & Technologies Theme Program, NC State Univ.
- (My opinions are my own and do not represent those of NCSU or IBM Corporation)
-