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to: Andrew Grillet
from: Peter Fitzsimmons
date: 1995-10-21 03:52:00
subject: Re: CTL-ALT-DEL

AG> I believe that C-A-D generates a specific
 AG> interrupt, not an actual reset

 AG> Well surely a few hacks to the KB driver should do it. The source
 AG> is in the DDK.

Just this AM,  at ColoradOS/2,  an IBM'er showed a private build of OS/2
that brings up a dialog when you hit ctrl-alt-del.  I didn't look at it
that closely,  but I think it had the following pushbuttons on it:

Shutdown
Reboot
Logoff
Cancel.

So this is something we will probably see soon.

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

Other things comming soon -- a fix for the single input queue (apps that
don't respond to a focus change are given a red border and ignored until
they decide to be nice again).


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