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- From: dic5340@hertz.njit.edu (David Charlap)
- Newsgroups: comp.os.os2.misc
- Subject: Re: Using CMD.EXE instead of PMSHELL.EXE
- Keywords: RUNWORKPLACE, WPS
- Message-ID: <1992Aug17.181601.27110@njitgw.njit.edu>
- Date: 17 Aug 92 18:16:01 GMT
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- In article <1992Aug15.063917.5822@cybernet.cse.fau.edu> postale@cse.fau.edu (Elena Postal) writes:
- >
- >If RUNWORKPLACE is set to CMD.EXE instead of WPS.EXE, how is OS/2
- >shutdown performed?
-
- There is no WPS.EXE. It runs PMSHELL.EXE a second time.
-
- Anyway, without WPS, you have no shutdown option. You have two
- choices: Download the shutdown.exe program from ftp-os2.nmsu.edu and
- use it, or press CTRL-ALT-DEL before powering off.
-
- The shutdown.exe program has a bug in it with WPS, so do NOT use it
- with WPS. Otherwise, the WPS state gets saved, and shutdown loads
- automaticly upon system startup - causing another shutdown.
-
- As for CTRL-ALT-DEL, this works fine, but you must be careful. After
- pressing it, wait for your screen to clear and the boot process to
- start before powering off. The reason for doing this is to flush disk
- buffers, and you wouldn't want to power off before they finished
- flushing. The safe time to power off is the period between when your
- BIOS information screen appears and when the disk starts going.
-
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