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Article #6888Re: PLAY.CMD causing problems?
From: Adam Frey
Date: Thu, 10 Nov 1994 21:10
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. -- - Adam Frey Private: adam@eden.apana.org.au - - Melbourne, Australia University: s932562@yallara.cs.rmit.oz.au - ---------- And if it wasn't for the bullet in my breast pocket... -----------
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X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: 10a752,8811a4301bbe3bc5 X-Google-Attributes: gid10a752,public X-Google-Thread: 10c4f5,8811a4301bbe3bc5 X-Google-Attributes: gid10c4f5,public X-Google-ArrivalTime: 1994-11-11 06:11:32 PST Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!nntp.gmd.de!newsserver.jvnc.net!howland.reston.ans.net!pipex!uunet!caen!msuinfo!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!news.uwa.edu.au!yarrina.connect.com.au!werple.apana.org.au!loose.apana.org.au!eden!adam From: adam@eden.apana.org.au (Adam Frey) Newsgroups: aus.computers.os2,comp.os.os2.bugs Subject: Re: PLAY.CMD causing problems? Distribution: world Message-ID: <784501802snx@eden.apana.org.au> References: <39pgvb$eqk@harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au> Date: Thu, 10 Nov 94 21:10:02 GMT Organization: Eden Lines: 26