OS/2 Doctor

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OS/2 Doctor
Version 2025-04-06
Vendor eCo Software
Author
License ??
Download 20250406
Website [1]

OS/2 Doctor is a collection of utilities aimed to test the integrity of OS/2. OS/2 Doctor consists in two components, the agent (dr-agent.exe) and the main utility (os2doctor.exe).

The idea is to take first an snapshot on your working system and later you can compare it with your future system with an HTML report this tool provides. This report will help troubleshoot any problems.

How to use:

1) Taking the Capsule (Snapshot): On an OS/2 working system run "dr-agent.exe" and click once the "Collect info" button that will show up on the screen.

A procedure starts that will scan your hard drive files and collect the information on the C:\HOME\OS2DOCTOR directory.

For example: x:\HOME\OS2DOCTOR\20250613-085625\crcdata.csv

2) Analyzing Changes If an problem occurs on your OS/2 system you can analyze the changes from the latest capsule (snapshot) with the following command.

 os2doctor.exe x: 

Where x: is the drive to analyze.

It will start to compare the capsule (snapshot) with the current drive:

 ▓▓▓OS/2 Doctor, collect analysis about system / version: Q0405

  c:
  Found: 1 capsules (= savings, sessions)
  Going to compare current state with the latest one..
  Press any key to Start. Press Ctrl-Break to Exit

Press any key to start the scanning. You will see on the command line the scanning procedure.

Once the procedure is completed, a new directory will be created with the HTML report of the changes. For example:

   x:\....\Doctor-report-20250613-095322

Open "report.html" with the browser to see the report of changes in your system.

Restrictions

1) You can manually edit the list of capsules (snapshot) located in:

  x:\Home\OS2DOCTOR\os2doctor.list

Names should be longer than 8 characters.