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| Prerequisites | |
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Short description
RUNCMD is a freeware program to interrupt CONFIG.SYS processing, before the Presentation Manager and Workplace Shell are loaded.
RUNCMD interrupts only, if a certain key combination is pressed
or a special stopfile is present. If that is the case, a
command processor (%COMSPEC%, which is normally CMD.EXE) or a
specified command is started.
Overview The installation program creates a WPS folder with some program objects
and adds RUNCMD.EXE to your CONFIG.SYS.
When RUNCMD is called from within CONFIG.SYS, it waits the specified
amount of seconds (default: 3 seconds), if the key combination L-SHIFT, L-CONTROL
and L-ALT are pressed simultaneously.
If that is the case, a command processor (%COMSPEC%, which is
normally CMD.EXE) or a specified command is started.
Unlike other utilities, RUNCMD does not display any text on the
screen, while it is waiting. It just moves the cursor one character to the
right for each second it is waiting.
More, you can let RUNCMD stop
unconditionally with creating the flagfile ?:\RUNCMD (called stopfile).
This feature is very helpful when you are already sure, that you
have to interrupt CONFIG.SYS processing during the next startup. By creating
the stopfile you can achive that without having to wait for the right moment
to press the special key combination.
You also can run additional commands by creating the special startup command
file ?:\_RUNCMD.CMD. If this file exists, executes it before it waits for the
key combination or stops due to existence of the stopfile.
The program objects in the RUNCMD folder support you in testing the program,
creating and deleting the stopfile and other tasks.
Online help is available by executing: RUNCMD /?.
Prerequisites This program runs under OS/2 WARP 3 or later.
Download current version You can download the current version (ca 24.30 Kb) from the following following sources:![[Top]](/img/top.gif)
This command file is something similar like STARTUP.CMD, but you can
absolutely be sure, that the WPS is not started, until
?:\_RUNCMD.CMD has finished, which is not true for STARTUP.CMD.
If you still need an OS/2 V2.x version, please send me an email
or decompress the executable file with lxlite.
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- Signature certificate: runcm140.asc
- MD5 checksum: 0f81022d51ee2315e17b9d07f320b51d
National Language Support
This program currently provides National Language Support for the following languages:
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