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Date:	Mon, 22 Mar 2004 17:16:37 PST8
From:	"Steven Levine" <steve53@earthlink.net >
Reply-To:	scoug-help@scoug.com
To:	scoug-help@scoug.com
Subject:	SCOUG-Help: recovery choices eCS 1.1

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In <200403210859.4570935.6@scoug.com>, on 03/21/04
at 08:59 AM, "Dr. Jeffrey Race" said:

>How can I enable this? I can find no option to bring up the RECOVERY
>CHOICES screen at boot time, and no index item for this either. It works
>fine in eCS 1.0.

The settings dialog is wrong in 1.1. Use the attached script.

Regards,

Steven

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/* turn on the Boot Recovery Menu
*
* Description
* This program sets the computer to display the Boot Recovery Menu
* on system startup.
*
* Copyright (C) 2003 Blonde Guy
* All Rights Reserved
*/

/* load the REXX util functions for SysBootDrive */
Call RxFuncAdd 'SysLoadFuncs', 'RexxUtil', 'SysLoadFuncs'
Call SysLoadFuncs

arcDir = SysBootDrive() || ':\os2\boot'
originalDir = Directory()
arcFile = 'ARCHBASE.$$$'

call Directory arcDir
'@attrib -r' arcFile

rc = stream(arcFile, 'c', 'open')

rc = charout(arcFile, d2c(1), 218)
if rc \= 0 then do
say "Operation failed: charout returned" rc "but 0 was expected"
end

rc = stream(arcFile, 'c', 'close')

'@attrib +r' arcFile

say "The system has been set to Display the Boot Recovery Menu at System
startup."
return
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