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- From: hatton@socrates.ucsf.edu (Tom Hatton)
- Newsgroups: comp.os.os2.misc
- Subject: Re: SHIFTRUN (Was OS2SYS.ini file size: Interim solution.)
- Message-ID: <hatton.724314769@cgl.ucsf.edu>
- Date: 14 Dec 92 06:32:49 GMT
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- harris@garfield.catt.ncsu.edu (Michael Harris) writes:
- >That is exactly why I wrote it. (Well, not for Trident drivers, but to debug
- >video setups, etc.)
-
- And thank you very much for doing so!
-
- >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,
-
- I haven't tried yet, but one other thing this may help with - for those who
- have recently carved the fat from swollen INI's, and want to copy the new
- slim versions over the bloated originals: you should be able to do the
- copy from a CMD session launched by shiftrun, rather than doing the painful
- floppy boot. I'll check it sometime soon to verify, unless someone else
- does so first.
-
- Tom
-
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