-=> On 01 Nov 95  22:01:00 Klaus Kulbarsch said to Mike Bilow <=-


 KK> Afaik that's the reason, the programmers of WatchCat added the above
 KK> mentioned possibilities to their driver. And that's the reason I was
 KK> recommending these chances to get back the 'grip' on the system - what
 KK> the original questioner wanted to do (imho) :-).

I am the original questioner.

My problem is this - I have a dual boot machine which has DOS or OS/2.
It is often used by a friend who uses a full screen DOS app which tends
to hang. When it hangs under DOS, the correct response is C-A-D.

WHne it hangs under OS/2, this is not the apporpriate action. How is the user
supposed to know whether I booted into OS/2?

I wanty them to press C-A-D and then get told it was OS/2 and they don't need
to kill the system. Watchcat is all very well, but its hardly the right
menu for a non-technical user who really only wanted to kill the current
app and doesn't know what multi-tasking is.

I want (the option of) a menu that pops up and promotes the concept of OS/2
without going overboard, and asks the user whether they
wanted to kill the current program, or the entire machine, or whether
they didnt mean to press C-A-D at all, now they know they could press
CTRL-ESC instead.

I would accept any reasonable compromise required to retain staility,
(eg the menu is run with ints off, damaging server and comms), and I
certainly would not want it forced on others who don't need this, but
when you run OS/2 in a 99%DOS shop, I should have thought it would be
rather useful.

It could be an (advanced) install option. (Or a retro-fit from DevCon).

I still want it - and I really don't want to write my own, but I may ahve to.

Andrew



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