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- From: sip1@ellis.uchicago.edu (Timothy F. Sipples)
- Subject: Re: Some suggestions for OS/2
- Message-ID: <1992Sep16.024140.14419@midway.uchicago.edu>
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- Organization: Dept. of Econ., Univ. of Chicago
- References: <20335@plains.NoDak.edu> <if58156@pro-haven.cts.com>
- Date: Wed, 16 Sep 1992 02:41:40 GMT
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- In article <if58156@pro-haven.cts.com> blackmane@pro-haven.cts.com (Ed Blackman) writes:
- >The reason chkdsk won't work when you've got everything up and running is
- >because OS/2 locks important files like OS2.INI, and chkdsk can't (and
- >shouldn't, IMO) deal with locked files. One way around this, other that
- >booting from a floppy, isto get access to OS/2 before it locks up all those
- >files. You can do this by putting "CALL=C:\OS2\CMD.EXE" (sans quotes)
- >early on in your config.sys. This will give you an OS/2 command prompt
- >early in your boot sequence, and you can run chkdsk, etc, from there. When
- >you exit from the CMD shell, booting will continue. And if you're one of
- >those types that hates to have to type "exit" everytime you boot up, you
- >can replace CMD.EXE with 4OS2.EXE (from the shareware 4OS2 package) and set
- >up a .CMD file that will automatically exit if you don't press "y" or
- >whatever within a specified time limit.
-
- An otherwise excellent post, but this point is inaccurate -- that
- method won't work.
-
- Autochecking, as I pointed out in the last follow up to this thread,
- is the way things should be done. See the FAQ List for details.
-
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