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- From: kevin@wicat.com (Kevin Vigor)
- Subject: Two questions for the gurus
- Message-ID: <1993Jan6.231642.20379@wicat.com>
- Summary: Two problems I'm having and plea for help
- Keywords: WPS startup append
- Reply-To: kevin@elvis.wicat.com
- Organization: WICAT Systems
- Date: Wed, 6 Jan 1993 23:16:42 GMT
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- There are two minor problems I have been unable to solve in my OS/2 setup;
- I'm hoping some guru out there can assist.
-
- 1: When I boot my system, the WPS tends to hang after running STARTUP.CMD.
- On my home system, hitting Control-ESC makes it pop up after a minute with
- the "desktop is not responding" message, and it then loads fine. This is
- annoying, but tolerable. On my work system, however, things have gotten
- considerably worse since installing TCP/IP 1.2.1. The WPS now hangs almost
- every time, and when I hit control-ESC, it actually pops up the task list
- and lets me select the desktop. It then takes up to 5 minutes to determine
- that the desktop is not responding, which is intolerable.
- I am loading a large amount of stuff from my STARTUP.CMD now (sendmail, La
- Mail) and pretty much overloading my poor 8 meg machine (more memory is on
- order...). I have kept my system at CSD level XR02000 since it works, and
- I have no urge to mess with it unless necessary. However, this is getting
- to the point where I'm prepared to try anything... has this been addressed
- in one of the CSDs/service packs/betas? Any other ideas?
-
- 2: When I run one of the external DOS programs in a DOS box (COMP, for
- instance), I get the message SYS0318: Message file OSO001.MSG cannot be found.
- The help for this message says that the file should be in my current directory
- (not bloody likely!) and suggests using APPEND in a DOS Box to include the
- appropiate directory. Now, APPEND does indeed get rid of the problem, but
- I've seen far too many cross-linked files and trashed FATs caused by APPEND
- in my DOS days to feel comfortable about using it. Putting the directory
- (OS2/SYSTEM, in this case) in my DOS search path does not help. Can somebody
- suggest a work-around, or reassure me that APPEND is really safe under OS/2
- (on a FAT drive, if that makes any difference).
-
- Thanks in advance!
-
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- Peace & PopTarts,
- Kevin
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