TID: Mystic BBS 1.12 A47
MSGID: 1:120/616 48be551e
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TZUTC: -0500
On 22 Jan 2025, IB Joe said the following...
 
 IJ> I just want to start VModem, my Mailer and Internet Rex.  I right
 IJ> clicked on Vmodem and copied it to the startup folder.  I did the same
 IJ> to the cmd files for the mailer and irex and rebooted the machine and
 IJ> the Vmodem program started fine, not minimized but I can work on that...
 IJ> but the mailer and IRex started 2 copies of itself.

this sounds a bit like you shut down the machine while those were running at
some point.

try setting:

SET RESTARTOBJECTS=STARTUPFOLDERSONLY,REBOOTONLY

in config.sys?

this will also get rid of Warp trying to bring back random folders or command
prompts you happened to have running when you shut down

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