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- From: enk2@po.cwru.edu (Erik Kovach)
- Newsgroups: comp.os.os2.misc
- Subject: Re: Why am I getting a startup.cmd window?
- Date: Fri, 22 Jan 1993 03:46:02 GMT
- Organization: Case Western Reserve University
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- Message-ID: <enk2.77.727674362@po.cwru.edu>
- References: <93021.122713DGRAHAM@HARPERVM.BITNET>
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- In article <93021.122713DGRAHAM@HARPERVM.BITNET> <DGRAHAM@HARPERVM.BITNET> writes:
- >When I enter OS/2 upon starting the computer the first thing that pops up
- >is a window titled startup.cmd. OS/2 is obviously running startup.cmd and
- >opening a window for it, and I have no idea why. I have the clock in the
- >startup.cmd folder so that the clock comes up all the time, but when I close
- >this new window the clock doesn't show up. Any way to get OS/2 to just run
- >the applications that are in the startup.cmd folder like it use to for me
- >instaed of having this window open? I am not sure what I did to change it to
- >make this happen, but something did.
-
- I think that you are confusing the Startup folder with the STARTUP.CMD
- file. The Startup folder contains OBJECTS to be started up at startup
- time. The STARTUP.CMD file is like an AUTOEXEC.BAT file for OS/2, and it
- loads programs, runs programs, and starts sessions. The file is located on
- the main directory of your OS/2 drive, and is usually created by installing
- OS/2 software that needs to spawn a process at the beginning of booting
- OS/2 (like the TCP/IP software).
-
- Basiclly, to trash the startup.cmd window, trash the STARTUP.CMD file, or,
- if the information in the STARTUP.CMD file is necessary and you just want
- the annoying STARTUP.CMD window to go away, add the word 'exit' to the last
- line of the file with a text editor.
-