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Received: from vmsuser.acsu.unsw.EDU.AU (vmsuser.acsu.unsw.EDU.AU [129.94.112.10]) by nacm.com (8.6.10/8.6.9) with ESMTP id WAA13743 for <executor@nacm.com>; Mon, 10 Jul 1995 22:14:46 -0700 Received: from @csdvax.csd.unsw.edu.au (149.171.120.214) by vmsuser.acsu.unsw.EDU.AU (PMDF V4.3-13 #6323) id <01HSQYFUOOIO8WXK47@vmsuser.acsu.unsw.EDU.AU>; Tue, 11 Jul 1995 15:16:41 +1000 Date: Tue, 11 Jul 1995 15:16:41 +1000 Date-warning: Date header was inserted by vmsuser.acsu.unsw.EDU.AU From: p8819343@vmsuser.acsu.unsw.EDU.AU (Kym Farrell) Subject: OS/2 Warp - Quicker way to Executor X-Sender: p8819343@csdvax.csd.unsw.edu.au To: executor@nacm.com Message-id: <01HSQYFV19UA8WXK47@vmsuser.acsu.unsw.EDU.AU> MIME-version: 1.0 X-Mailer: Windows Eudora Version 1.4.4 Content-type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-transfer-encoding: 7BIT Sender: owner-paper@nacm.com Precedence: bulk Just thought I'd mention a quicker way to get E/D1.99n up and running under OS/2 warp (although anyone who's struggled to get warp fully functional may already have worked it out!). Instead of the somewhat tiresome method of booting a virtual DOS session from floppy (I'm always misplacing the damned disk), you can set up an DOS boot disk image file on your hard disk & use it instead. This methods a bit quicker and a lot more convienient. All that you need to do is create a DOS boot disk with autoexec & config files set to your needs (but remember that your need DEVICE=C:\os2\mdos\fsaccess.sys to get to HPFS partitions) and then open an OS/2 command session. From here all you need to do is type VMDISK A: DOS.IMG, and the file DOS.IMG will be created in the current directory. Finally, change (or create) your Executor Icon's settings to boot DOS not from A: but from C:\...\DOS.IMG. Hey-Presto! Executor boots quicker (and won't take the system down when those buggy apple applications crash the finest piece of engineering since the wheel!!!). Regards Kym.