-=> On 18 Oct 95  13:02:27 Mike Bilow said to Andrew Grillet <=-

 MB> Andrew Grillet wrote in a message to Mike Byrne:

 AG> AFAIK, from inside the DD you can't do much in the way of
 AG> screen writes etc without a mountain of hard work. Am I
 AG> wrong? Is there are DevHelp to query user? will it work on
 AG> the kind of sick system that requires C-A-D? It would be sad
 AG> if I made a reboot impossible.

 MB> It can be done by adding in a new device driver.  WatchCat is an
 MB> example of a program that has exactly this kind of capability:
 MB> WCAT11.ZIP    121K  1-31-94  WatchCat is a program for OS/2 2.x that
 MB> makes it possible to recover from system
 MB> hangs that block keyboard and mouse input.

But you don't get the source code do you (I didn't anyway).

I was proposing to write the DD myself. Are you suggesting I set Wcat
to recognise C-A-D? Is this possible?

Andrew



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