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echo: os2prog
to: Jorgen De Gier
from: Russell Coker
date: 1995-11-19 02:00:00
subject: Ctl-Alt-Del

PF>> Personally,  I hope you can turn this off -- I think C-A-D _should_
 PF>> reboot the computer,  no questions asked.

JG>I don't agree. C-A-D seems to be 'stronger' then Control-Escape. 5
JG>minutes before I wrote this message, Warp Connect crashed. I 
JG>couldn't even move my mouse. Pressing Control/Alt-Escape 
JG>didn't react. But pressing C-A-D did work!

   On a number of occasions I have had OS/2 crash in such a way that
nothing but C-A-D would work (result of buggy 3com 3c5x9 device driver I
think).  But C-A-D did not do start the OS/2 reboot sequence (kill all
programs, flush all caches, make filing system read-only, then reboot).  It
just rebooted and then had to run CHKDSK (which was a major PITA as this
only occurred on the file server and everyone on the net sat and watched me
while the file server ran CHKDSK).  I believe that in this case the system
was going out of protected mode and letting the BIOS handle the C-A-D (I
can't think of any other explanation).


   cya
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