-=> On 04 Nov 95  17:43:45 Mike Bilow said to James Mckenzie <=-

 MB> James Mckenzie wrote in a message to Peter Fitzsimmons:

 PF> Since OS/2 does not use the bios AT ALL for the keyb,  C-A-D is not a
 PF> magical key sequence;  any key sequence can be used for "kill app"
 PF> (I'd prefer ctrl-BREAK).

 JM> Great.  Why didn't I think of that?  But some DOS programs
 JM> reserve the Cntrl-Break combination, if I remember
 JM> programming correctly.

 MB> Why not do something with that dumb "SysRq" key?
 MB>

Because the problem was that a dumb user of a DOS app that keeps hanging
presses C-A-D to get out of the app - the user of a FS app DOESN'T KNOW
he/she is IN OS/2 (or even what OS/2 is). I want to use this moment to
promote the benefits of OS/2 -instead a reboot takes place - and the slow
boot time of OS/2 is no advert to someone who thinks DOS 3.3 is high tech.

I am not advocating this as a general solution - I have a specific problem to
solve, and would like it done to make OS/2 look good - at present it makes
it look bad to this particular class of user. (I can't re-write the app
there's a whole bunch of them.)

Andrew


... 90% of the time I'm right, so why worry about the other 3%?
--- Blue Wave/Max v2.12 OS/2 [NR]