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From: "yeep" <yeep AT xs4all DOT nl>
Cc: <opendos AT delorie DOT com>
Subject: Re: wish list 2.0
Date: Thu, 3 Apr 1997 23:07:00 +0200
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> > > Only if a clear demarcation of config.sys section and autoexec.bat
section labels
> > > were placed in boot.log.  Wouldn't want users new to opendos getting
confused.
> > 
> > You mean something like:
> > 
> > [begin boot log 03-28-1997]
> > [begin config.sys processing]
> > this
> > that
> > [begin autoexec.bat processing]
> > more
> > stuff
> > [end boot log 03-28-1997]
> > 
> > While we're at it, we could also add time stames within the various
result
> > captures, by comparing the precommand start and the following, we could
> > easily determine why the machine is taking five minutes to boot!
> 
> Yeah, it would take 5 minutes because of the time needed to write
> to the logfile.  :o)

Well that's what cashe is for, isn't it?
Let the bootfile be written in the cache and later to DISK, but only use
this option if you are sure your computer will complete it's boot process,
otherwise you'd lose your log file ;-))

	Yeep