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- From: jst50986@uxa.cso.uiuc.edu (Jack S. Tan)
- Subject: Re: File system momentarily vanished; icon viewers; instb; ...
- References: <1992Dec17.140442.7546@spartan.ac.BrockU.CA>
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- Organization: University of Illinois at Urbana
- Date: Thu, 17 Dec 1992 17:11:16 GMT
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- bross@spartan.ac.BrockU.CA (Brian J Ross) writes:
-
- > Some miscellaneous questions...
- >
- > While using full-screen DOS emulation, suddenly all my files vanished,
- > both on my primary and logical partitions. I exited, got back into the
- > f-s Dos, and they were back. Has anyone else seen this happen?
-
- Sorry, haven't seen this (luckily).
-
- > Are there any OS/2 icon viewers/deleters, other than the bundled
- > icon editor? I have a directory with ove a Meg of icons, and I'd like
- > to efficiently peruse and delete them. Windows icon viewers don't work.
-
- You can open the directory as 'Icon View' (select the folder from the
- Drives object, pull up its menu, and select 'Open' --> 'Icon View') and
- view the icons from there. To delete, either drag the icon to the Shredder
- or to a folder that you will delete later.
-
- > I tried getting 'INSTB' to work(which creates a boot/installation disk
- > for drive B). I kept getting a "wrong boot image" message when running
- > creating the second B boot diskette.
-
- Can't help you with this one, sorry.
-
- > Finally (for now), if one screws up the config.sys of a primary DOS
- > partition, so that one cannot execute it (say, bad memory configuration),
- > is there any way of recovering that partition without having to reinstall
- > DOS? Would utility software like Norton utilities help, if it existed for
- > OS/2?
-
- Boot a DOS boot diskette and, assuming you've made a backup, restore the
- backup CONFIG.SYS from there. Or, boot the DOS diskette, make some changes
- to CONFIG.SYS, and reboot.
-
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- Jack Tan Sattinger's Law:
- jahk@uiuc.edu It works better if you plug it in.
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