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- What is it ?.
- RunCheck is a program which can tell if it has been executed previously today.
- Its very handy when used in your Autoexec.bat to avoid repeating 'once a day'
- tasks when re-booting. For example loading printer fonts, disk checking and
- sorting, virus scanning and so on.
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- How it works.
- When first executed RunCheck creates a 1 byte file lastboot.dat on the root
- directory. This file contains the day of the month in hex. Future evocations
- cause the program to check today's date with the date stored in lastboot.dat.
- If equal the program returns 2, if not lastboot.dat is updated and the program
- returns 1. An exit code of 3 indicates a file error which may have been caused
- when creating,reading or writing lastboot.dat.
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- How to use it.
- First create \lastboot.dat by running RunCheck. Now place RunCheck immediately
- after the date/time is set (ignore for AT upwards) in your AUTOEXEC.BAT file
- and then take the following actions based on the returned error-level.
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- Rem Is this the first boot of the day ?
- RUNCHECK
- If errorlevel 3 goto file_error
- If errorlevel 2 goto quick_boot .....no
- If errorlevel 1 goto full_boot .....yes
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- Hugh G. O'Keeffe 23 January 1990.
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