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John Poltorak wrote in a message to Mike Bilow: GG>> Is there still any other hidden functions in OS/2 like the GG>> one that says to whom Warp is dedicated to: GG>> - Click on the desktop to unselect anything GG>> - Type the following: Ctrl+Alt+Shift+o MB> Well, if you strike Alt-F2 in the early part of the boot MB> process while the white block and "OS/2" are displayed in the MB> top left corner of the screen, then you will be treated to MB> announcements of the names of device drivers as they load. MB> This is very useful for diagnosing system hangs caused by MB> device drivers, so you can figure out which driver is MB> responsible. JP> This is a useful function, which ought to be documented JP> somewhere. One thing I have found, though, is that this JP> seems to get disabled if you have 'Display Recovery Choices JP> at each restart' set on in the Desktop settings. Display recovery choices is implemented by pretending that the user has pushed Alt-F1, which is documented and which takes precedence. There are situations in which Alt-F2 does not work, for example when running the debugging kernel. -- Mike ---* Origin: N1BEE BBS +1 401 944 8498 V.34/V.FC/V.32bis/HST16.8 (1:323/107) SEEN-BY: 105/42 620/243 624/50 711/401 409 410 413 430 807 808 809 934 955 SEEN-BY: 712/407 515 628 704 713/888 800/1 7877/2809 @PATH: 323/107 150 3615/50 396/1 270/101 105/103 42 712/515 711/808 809 934 |
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