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echo: os2prog
to: Paul Edwards
from: Peter Fitzsimmons
date: 1996-10-28 14:31:04
subject: reboot

PE> Can someone please send me code that will do a 
 PE> reboot(). Thanks + bye.  Paul.


 int main(void)
 {
     HFILE hf;
     APIRET rc;
     ULONG dummy;

     rc = DosOpen("DOS$", &hf, &dummy, 0L, FILE_NORMAL, FILE_OPEN,
         OPEN_ACCESS_WRITEONLY | OPEN_SHARE_DENYNONE |
         OPEN_FLAGS_FAIL_ON_ERROR, 0L);
     if(!rc){
         DosShutdown(0L);    // can't use stdin/stdout after this!
         //16 bit: DosDevIOCtl(NULL, NULL, 0xab, 0xd5, hf);        /* reboot */
         rc = DosDevIOCtl(hf, 0xd5, 0xab,
                          NULL, 0, NULL,
                          NULL, 0, NULL);
         /* we shouldn't actually make it this far */
         printf("ioctl returned %d\n", rc);
         DosClose(hf);
     }
     else
         printf("DOS.SYS not installed (sys%04u)\n", rc);
 }

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