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echo: os2prog
to: Paul Edwards
from: Phil Crown
date: 1996-11-17 03:23:32
subject: reboot

-=> Quoting Paul Edwards to Jonathan de Boyne Pollard <=-

 >  PE> Can someone please send me code that will do a reboot(). Thanks +
 >  PE> bye.  Paul.
 
 JdBP> It's selfish, narrowminded, and daft to assume that one is the only
 JdBP> application that a user is running.  It's a legacy of DOS-think and
 JdBP> Windows-think that doesn't apply to OS/2.

 PE> The situation here is that an OS/2 PC running unattended at night, has
 PE> a bug in the application that makes it hang sometimes, and a reboot is
 PE> required to kick it back into life.  My previous message (process ID)
 PE> is also related to this rogue application, as they want to know how to
 PE> tell if the process has died an unnatural death.  BFN.  Paul.  -!-

You may also want to check out GO! v1.5, GO_15.ZIP.  It is a task
lister, killer, jump to, and more.  Its not source code, but its
freeware.  It should be on just about any BBS and hobbes and its
mirrors.

Phil Crown
pcrown{at}airmail.net
http://web2.airmail.net/pcrown/

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