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- From: juan@noyles.pha.pa.us (Juan J. E. T. Noyles)
- Newsgroups: comp.os.os2.misc
- Subject: Re: Questions with OS/2
- Distribution: world
- Message-ID: <716076890snx@noyles.pha.pa.us>
- References: <1992Sep8.213841.28560@galileo.cc.rochester.edu>
- Date: Wed, 09 Sep 92 22:14:50 GMT
- Organization: The Noyles OS/2 Platform
- Lines: 29
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- lutz@solace.psych.rochester.edu writes in article <1992Sep8.213841.28560@galileo.cc.rochester.edu>:
- >
- > 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.
-
- Actually, the solution to this is to change the settings for the window to "Close window
- on exit". Without this, the window can only be closed from the menu you get when
- you press all (or click the mouse in the upper left corner of the window).
- >
- > Dave Lutz
- > lutz@psych.rochester.edu
- >
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- Has anyone seen my sanity? Juan@Noyles.pha.pa.us
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