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Date:	Mon, 25 Aug 2003 16:34:11 PDT7
From:	"Steven Levine" <steve53@earthlink.net >
Reply-To:	scoug-help@scoug.com
To:	scoug-help@scoug.com
Subject:	SCOUG-Help: setting up eCS 1.1

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In <3F4A8FC1.8070503@usa.net>, on 08/25/03
at 03:37 PM, Sheridan George said:

>If an application program undergoes a program trap and it (the
>application program) chooses not to handle the trap (I believe this is
>called a Ring 3 trap), OS/2 will dump the contents of memory (RAM) to a
>designated location. Then the dump can be examined by some "smart"
>people to figure out what happened.

You can do this, but it's usually better to use PROCESSDUMP for ring 3
traps.

>Big caution: Make sure you designate a drive_letter because the default
>is A: an once the dump starts it cannot be aborted.

That's not true. Ctrl-Alt-Del works just fine.

>I don't know how valuable this is nor do I know if the following two
>lines could be put in config.sys:
> TRAPDUMP=ON, M: (for aplication dumps)
> TRAPDUMP=R0, P: (for system dumps)

>and have both types of traps dumped. Perhaps Steven can shed some light
>on the subject.

Mr. KIA wrote a could of articles on this. If the web site search
function is working it should be easy enough to find them.

>I understand Peter has a 'copy everything' program that is better than
>xcopy. Perhaps he will elaborate.

You are thinking of dsync. It's definitely faster.

>Steven uses his maintenance partition for more things.

True.

>That brings up a point I don't remember if I made or not in my earlier
>post. My drive C: (applications only) is the only primary partition I
>have. All others are logical. (Yes, I know Boot Manager takes a
>primary but that is not important to the discussion.)

Some folks even create C: in a logical partition.

Steven

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