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- From: dic5340@hertz.njit.edu (David Charlap)
- Newsgroups: comp.os.os2.misc
- Subject: Re: Questions with OS/2
- Keywords: OS/2
- Message-ID: <1992Sep9.200507.16356@njitgw.njit.edu>
- Date: 9 Sep 92 20:05:07 GMT
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- In article <1992Sep8.213841.28560@galileo.cc.rochester.edu> lutz@solace.psych.rochester.edu (Dave Lutz) writes:
- >In <Bu9x1M.5n9@news.cso.uiuc.edu> jst50986@uxa.cso.uiuc.edu (Jack S. Tan) 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.
-
- No, that wouldn't do it. I can kill a specific DOS session (which
- runs COMMAND.COM with the /P option) by closing it from the task list.
-
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