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- From: jst50986@uxa.cso.uiuc.edu (Jack S. Tan)
- Subject: Re: Questions with OS/2
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- Organization: University of Illinois at Urbana
- Date: Wed, 9 Sep 1992 19:44:53 GMT
- Keywords: OS/2
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- lutz@solace.psych.rochester.edu (Dave Lutz) writes:
-
- >>- I have been having trouble closing DOS and OS/2 windows on the Desktop. I
- >> type 'exit' at the prompt, and the title bar changes to "Closing: DOS [OS/2]
- >> Window," but then does not close. Double-clicking on the title-bar icon
- >> produces the appropriate waring (losing my data in the active session, etc.),
-
- > I haven't seen this, but have a possible explanation. Did you by any chance
- >add /P to the command.com options for your DOS window? The /P option on
- >command.com makes the session permanent (ie you can type exit all you want and
- >it won't really go away), which may make it impossible to close the window
- >normally.
-
- > This would only explain the problem if CMD.EXE has a similar option, and you
- >used that as well. I don't have an OS/2 system in front of me, so I can't
- >check right now.
-
- >Dave Lutz
- >lutz@psych.rochester.edu
-
-
- Thanks for your input. The problem occurs, however, about 1/3 of the time.
- The /P option is not installed for COMMAND.COM. Perhaps it's in one of the
- installed fixes. I've installed the following patches:
- kernel
- HPFS
- 360k
- Tseng
-
- Another problem I had was with accessing my floppy disk drives from both OS/2
- and DOS windows. When I execute '[B:\]dir', for example, I get the drive B
- light lit for 3-5 seconds, then drive A (!), then back to drive B. Not all
- the files are listed, either. It takes a CHKDSK /V to see all the files, and
- CHKDSK doesn't report anything wrong with the disk. The disks were formatted
- under MS-DOS 5.0.
-
- Well, I'll see what happens. The CSD should be out by the next time I use
- OS/2.
-
- Sincerely,
-
- Jack Tan
- jst50986@uxa.cso.uiuc.edu
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