旼컴컴컴컴컴컴컴컴컴컴컴컴컴컴컴컴컴컴컴컴컴컴컴컴컴컴컴컴컴컴컴컴컴컴� � � 쿔PLPAUSE: A small timer program for your CONFIG.SYS during startup. � �-------- (IPL means Initial Program Load...also known as "booting" � � the system). � � � � BY: Knight Research - Copyright (c) 1993 All Rights Reserved. � � -- � � License: Give it away to all your friends, use it for private or � � ------- commercial applications or whatever practical application � � you can find. � � � 쿑eedback: Constructive feedback and suggestions can be sent via � �-------- Compuserve to: 71301,3400 � � � � or mailed to: Knight Research � � P.O. Box 25285 � � St. Paul, Minnesota 55125 � � USA � � � � Payment: If you LIKE this program and USE it, drop me a note. � � ------- I'll add you to my mailing list. � � If you LIKE this program and USE it, pass it on to at � � least ONE other OS/2 user. � � � � Systems: IPLPAUSE is a 16-bit application and should work well � � ------- with any version of OS/2 since 1.1 (tested through � � OS/2 2.1). � � � 읕컴컴컴컴컴컴컴컴컴컴컴컴컴컴컴컴컴컴컴컴컴컴컴컴컴컴컴컴컴컴컴컴컴컴� Description: A small timer program, which when called from your ----------- config.sys, allows you to press any key during system startup to "interrupt" the boot process, and places you at the C> prompt...Presentation Manager is not running at this point and you can freely copy your OS2.INI - OS2SYS.INI, modify your Startup.Cmd file, remove objects from the Startup folder or whatever maintenance you need to perform. After making your changes, type EXIT to continue the system startup and continue on into Presentation Manager. Advantages: IPLPAUSE allows you to STOP digging out the installation ---------- or other boot diskettes everytime you want to start OS/2 in "maintenance mode"...just to be able to copy or restore your .INI files. Or have you ever crashed your system and had OS/2 "automatically" remember all the objects that were running, and attempts to restart them the next time you boot-up? Its difficult to break into the automatic startup sequence with CNTL-BREAK or the key combination. Instead, when the system restarts, IPLPAUSE will give you 15 seconds (countdown style) whereby you can press any key to interrupt the system boot process, and nicely places you at the command prompt. If you don't press a key, the system will automatically continue on and boot OS/2. (If you're impatient, you can hit the key to tell the system to skip the rest of the countdown and boot immediately). Syntax: Place in the CONFIG.SYS: ------ CALL=C:\OS2\CMD.EXE /C "C:\IPLPAUSE.EXE" & EXIT or CALL=C:\OS2\CMD.EXE /C "C:\IPLPAUSE.EXE 15" & EXIT The '15' refers to the number of seconds which IPLPAUSE will countdown from before automatically continuing. (If left blank, the default is 15 seconds). Installation: Copy the IPLPAUSE.EXE program to the C:\ directory. ------------ (It doesn't really matter where you put it but this is the place I used in the example). Place a one line CALL in your CONFIG.SYS file...pick an appropriate spot near the top...perhaps after the SET COMSPEC= line. Type the line EXACTLY as you see it, or paste the line from the IPLPAUSE.DAT using your favorite editor. See the example below: . . . (partial PROTSHELL=C:\OS2\PMSHELL.EXE CONFIG.SYS) SET USER_INI=C:\OS2\OS2.INI SET SYSTEM_INI=C:\OS2\OS2SYS.INI SET OS2_SHELL=C:\OS2\CMD.EXE SET AUTOSTART=PROGRAMS,TASKLIST,FOLDERS SET RUNWORKPLACE=C:\OS2\PMSHELL.EXE SET COMSPEC=C:\OS2\CMD.EXE rem rem *************************************************** rem *************************************************** rem *************************************************** rem Insert here==>CALL=C:\OS2\CMD.EXE /C "C:\IPLPAUSE.EXE 15" & EXIT ----------- rem rem *************************************************** rem *************************************************** rem *************************************************** rem LIBPATH=C:\OS2\DLL;C:\OS2\MDOS;C:\;C:\IBMCOM\DLL; SET PATH=C:\OS2;C:\OS2\SYSTEM;C:\OS2\MDOS\WINOS2; SET DPATH=C:\OS2;C:\OS2\SYSTEM;C:\OS2\MDOS\WINOS2; . . . Drawbacks: IPLPAUSE is a normal ring-3 application. It does NOT --------- stop your system device drivers from starting up before it interrupts the boot process. (The program would have to be a device driver itself to accomplish this, and would require good testing to be sure it didn't cause conflicts with all the different system configurations in existence...but its not a bad idea). Source: The C source code is included with this program. IPLPAUSE ------ was compiled with the MSC 6.0 compiler for backward 16-bit compatability with OS/2 1.3 but the newer 32 bit compilers would have worked as well.