Hi Roderick
Even that the documentation around the web says that DOS.SYS is only part DOS VM, I got shocked to find out it used to reboot OS/2. I also noticed that XWorkplace uses it for reboot.
It is not a vital OS/2 component, since it can be removed and it keeps working without major issues. But I want to know if there is any other use for this driver.
Beside DOS VM and Rebooting, does anybody knows if this driver has any other use?
Regards
* I am not aware that the DOS VM itself is able to reboot the OS/2 system via DOS.SYS. But I could be wrong..
Here are some of the native OS/2 applications that use this driver.
* Setboot.exe might use DOS$. The version that comes with airboot seems todo that..
I do not know what the setboot from IBM does...
* Estyler uses it as well...
* From what I can the DFsee uses it also...
* Its used in the WPS Toolkit from Christian Langanke.
wtkusys.c.
* 4os2 as well...
This driver has been around in OS/2 as long as can remember. I do not know why this is not part of the kernel or they did give a different name to this driver... But its certainly not used by DOS VDM as far as I can tell...
Roderick
I found some of these files by simply searching my hard drive with file commander. Via alt F7 search for * and the text string DOS$.
Roderick