From: Tom Cole (tcole_at_xtra.co.nz)
Date: Fri Apr 07 2000 - 22:03:10 EDT
On Fri, 07 Apr 2000 09:13:54 -0400, you wrote:
>
>
>My sincere thanks to everyone (Bill Morrow, James H. E. Maugham, Mike
>Lingenfelter, Michael Geary, Adam Quantrill, and anyone else I missed) who
>made suggestions on how to use the emergency repair disk with my new 18G
>HDD on my TP600E.
>
>After a couple of false starts (hint: the startup CD really likes it if
>you've actually formatted the new disk already and it should be FAT16 for
>*a little more than* the first 2Gig), I now have a working TP600E once
>again.
>
>So now ... when I boot up into Win98, I get two messages that worry me, and
>one more problem. The two messages are:
>
> (1) Too many parameters
> (2) Cannot execute file ps2main.exe
> File not found
>
>Message (1) I have no idea about. As for message (2), I figured out that
>ps2main is in c:\thinkpad, and my autoexec.bat file looks like this:
>
> @ECHO OFF
> SET PATH=C:\Thinkpad ;
> SET PS2MSG=C:\THINKPAD\PS2.MSG
> REM The following line is for hibernation.
> C:\Thinkpad\Ps2.EXE HFILE C
> REM The following line is no longer needed. It may be deleted.
> If Exist C:\MFGBOOTI.REG C:\WINDOWS\REGEDIT C:\MFGBOOTI.REG
> mode con codepage prepare=((850) c:\windows\COMMAND\ega.cpi)
> mode con codepage select=850
> set PATH=%PATH%;D:\Program Files\vim\vim56
>
>So I don't understand why it can't find ps2main.exe (and I don't
>understand why my dos shells don't reflect the PATH set up here either.
>The last line should allow gvim.exe to be found in my path.)
>
>Any further enlightenment (he said, gnomishly) greatly appreciated!
>
>-- Mike
You are corrupting PATH in the last statement. You need to change
Program Files to progra~1 as long names are not recognised at this
stage of the load.
HTH
-- Tom Cole Lower Hutt New Zealand tcole_at_xtra.co.nz
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