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- From: sip1@ellis.uchicago.edu (Timothy F. Sipples)
- Newsgroups: comp.os.os2.misc
- Subject: Re: Some suggestions for OS/2
- Message-ID: <1992Sep15.153537.23710@midway.uchicago.edu>
- Date: 15 Sep 92 15:35:37 GMT
- References: <1992Sep3.021506.16434@midway.uchicago.edu> <1992Sep3.063542.25716@monu6.cc.monash.edu.au> <20335@plains.NoDak.edu>
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- Organization: Dept. of Econ., Univ. of Chicago
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- In article <20335@plains.NoDak.edu> person@plains.NoDak.edu (Brett G Person ) writes:
- >I'd like an OS that wasn't so damn dependent on the install disks!
- >Other products I have don't make me haul out the install disks ALL
- >THE TIME to fix a problem. Heck, even unix (copyright at&t) doesn't
- >make me haul out the boot tape to fix the file system.
- >Yes, i have a full backup of my disks, and yes, I undderstand - and
- >even agree with- the way drive c: can't be written to by checkdisk
- >when it's the active drive...but still.
- >I'd like a checkdisk that, if it found a problem, could take all
- >running apps down, clean the swap file up, do a checkdisk and drop me
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- Check the FAQ List about enabling autochecking. You don't need to run
- CHKDSK from your install disks (or very rarely need to) if
- autochecking is enabled in your OS/2 CONFIG.SYS.
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