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- From: dic5340@hertz.njit.edu (David Charlap)
- Newsgroups: comp.os.os2.misc
- Subject: Re: Startup.cmd does not run
- Message-ID: <1992Nov10.204623.19964@njitgw.njit.edu>
- Date: 10 Nov 92 20:46:23 GMT
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- In article <1992Nov10.180751.12117@midway.uchicago.edu> sip1@midway.uchicago.edu writes:
- >In article <1992Nov10.000632.26788@nuscc.nus.sg> nbl@solomon.technet.sg (Ng Beng Lim) writes:
- >>The startup.cmd batch file does not run automatically everytime I start up.
- >>It seems to behave very eratically. Sometimes I use Alt-CTRL-DEL,
- >>sometimes, Shutdown, but in any case, there are instances when the
- >>startup.cmd is not executed.
- >>I am running HPFS.
- >
- >Very strange.
- >
- >However, the Startup Folder (located in OS/2 System) now supplants
- >STARTUP.CMD. You can create a program object (even one pointing to a
- >CMD file) and drag a shadow of it to the Startup Folder.
-
- I'd recommend copying the object to the Startup folder. I found that
- shadowing program objects (not other object like the Clock) can cause
- multiple copies to run. Apparantly, OS/2 starts up the previously
- running applications (like DINFO.EXE) and then starts up the startup
- folder. I ended up with two copies of DINFO running. The next
- bootup, three copies, etc... I deleted my shadow of DINFO from the
- startup folder and placed a copy there and everything worked fine.
- The SOM startup objects (clock, calendar, and alarms) didn't cause any
- such problems.
-
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