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- From: jst50986@uxa.cso.uiuc.edu (Jack S. Tan)
- Subject: Re: Why am I getting a startup.cmd window?
- References: <93021.122713DGRAHAM@HARPERVM.BITNET> <enk2.77.727674362@po.cwru.edu>
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- Organization: University of Illinois at Urbana
- Date: Fri, 22 Jan 1993 06:53:35 GMT
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- enk2@po.cwru.edu (Erik Kovach) writes:
-
- >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.
-
- To have STARTUP.CMD not display at all, this is what I did: I placed
- STARTUP.CMD in my \REXX directory (rather than the root), then shadowed it
- to the Startup folder. The 'Start Minimized' and 'Close Window on Exit'
- options are checked. As noted above, the last line in the bactch file is
- 'exit.'
-
- --
-
- Jack Tan If your parents didn't have kids,
- jahk@uiuc.edu chances are you won't either.
-