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  1. Newsgroups: comp.os.os2.misc
  2. Path: sparky!uunet!caen!sol.ctr.columbia.edu!vmsb.is.csupomona.edu!cvadrtbc
  3. From: cvadrtbc@vmsb.is.csupomona.edu (Srikanth Viswanathan)
  4. Subject: Re: Using CMD.EXE instead of PMSHELL.EXE
  5. Organization: California Polytechnic University, Pomona
  6. References: <1992Aug12.155015.14039@kakwa.ucs.ualberta.ca> <1992Aug14.191939.1588@njitgw.njit.edu> <1992Aug15.063917.5822@cybernet.cse.fau.edu>
  7. Message-ID: <18AUG199208083688@vmsb.is.csupomona.edu>
  8. News-Software: VAX/VMS VNEWS 1.41    
  9. Distribution: comp.os.os2.misc
  10. Sender: news@ctr.columbia.edu (The Daily Lose)
  11. Keywords: RUNWORKPLACE, WPS
  12. Date: Tue, 18 Aug 1992 16:08:00 GMT
  13. X-Posted-From: vmsb.is.csupomona.edu
  14. X-Posted-Through: sol.ctr.columbia.edu
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  17. In article <1992Aug15.063917.5822@cybernet.cse.fau.edu>, postale@cse.fau.edu (Elena Postal) writes...
  18. > 
  19. >If RUNWORKPLACE is set to CMD.EXE instead of WPS.EXE, how is OS/2
  20. >shutdown performed?
  21. > 
  22. >The normal method, of course, involves selecting the _shutdown_ option
  23. >from the floating popup which is not available if WPS is not the work
  24. >place executed.
  25.  
  26. I don't think Shutdown is necessary if you run CMD.EXE as your Workplace,
  27. but there is a program on ftp-os2 called SHUTDOWN.ZOO.  It SEEMS to do
  28. the job.
  29.  
  30. Srikanth
  31.