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Re: PLAY.CMD causing problems?

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From: Adam Frey
Date: Thu, 10 Nov 1994 21:10
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> Adam Frey (adam@eden.apana.org.au) wrote:
> : Since IBM made that brilliant decision only to support windows users until
> : december sometime, I am still running 2.11 and occassionally, get system
> : freezes, and or refusals to shutdown. The only common thing I can see is that
> : when I reboot and chkdsk is run, there is always an allocation fault in
> : /MMOS2/PLAY.CMD and usually OS2.!!!

> When the system freezes, are you able to Ctrl-Alt-Del? If C-A-D works then
> everyting should be OK and chkdsk shouldn't run. If you are forced to
> cold boot then you're likely to get some errors. I don't know what's
> up with PLAY.CMD, but OS2.!!! seems to have something to do with updating
> the ini files. OS2.!!! and OS2SYS.!!! are always marked as "in use"
> (ie. can't be accessed) while the shell is running, so I'm not surprised
> it gets damaged in a cold boot.

I do a c-a-d and the rebooting message comes up but then it freezes and I have
to cold boot.

> Sorry I can't be of more help.

So am I.

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Subject: Re: PLAY.CMD causing problems?
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