Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!rpi!uwm.edu!spool.mu.edu!think.com!mintaka!bloom-beacon!eru!kth.se!cyklop.nada.kth.se!news From: d88-pfo@dront.nada.kth.se (Peter Forsberg) Newsgroups: comp.os.os2.misc Subject: Re: DOS dual boot & shutdown Message-ID: Date: 21 Apr 91 09:12:33 GMT References: <9656@star.cs.vu.nl> <1991Apr19.043337.25190@milton.u.washington.edu> Sender: news@nada.kth.se (Mr News) Organization: Royal Institute of Technology, Stockholm, Sweden Lines: 24 In-reply-to: horker@milton.u.washington.edu's message of 19 Apr 91 04:33:37 GMT In article <1991Apr19.043337.25190@milton.u.washington.edu> horker@milton.u.washington.edu (Rand al'Thor) writes: Don't worry about it. What you are doing is fine: closing down all your apps and then running boot /dos. This will not cause problems with your hpfs. Incidentally, while you are in PM, you do not need to select "shutdown" everytime you want to quit OS/2. Simply doing a ctrl-alt-del is enough. OS/2 traps the ctrl-alt-del and does a shutdown automatically. Just a little time saver you might be interested in. If you want to check this for yourself, do the 3 finger salute while you have apps open and watch your hard drive light. It will flash a brief flurry of activity AFTER the ctrl-alt-del. This is actually just "half true". When you press CAD OS/2 makes all file systems shut down (by issuing a DosShutdown() equvalent), but does NOT make applications terminate, as the Desktop Manager Shutdown does, so you should always make sure that you don't have any app's running with unsaved data if you take this shortcut. Peter Forsberg Royal Inst. of Tech. & IBM Sweden -- _______________________________________________________________________________ Peter Forsberg Royal Institute of Technology, Stockholm, Sweden. Internet: d88-pfo@nada.kth.se ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~