Marcello Desantis doth sayeth in a message unto Craig Morrison:

MD> I wrote that Binkley prevents me from opening the com port,
MD> but the one I need to monitor is Maximus and not Binkley
MD> Term.

MD> We are experiencing frequent hangs when Maximus spawns
MD> external programs. Most of the times the problem regards
MD> MAXPIPE running zip (InfoZip) to compress QWK packets, but

  Try to find Peter Fitzsimmon's BigBro.. Its floating around on many fine
OS/2 BBS's and it comes with source code. That would be a good start at
what you are trying to do..

MD> To come back to my scenario, I've seen cases where
MD> DosKillProcess doesn't work and I'd like to have rebooting
MD> acting as a "last chance" action.

  Look into opening the keyboard with DosOpen(..) using "KBD$" as
the filename, then look up DosDevIOCtl() for the keyboard services. The
information should be there.

 See ya,

Craig

... What if there were no hypothetical situations?

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