alanm@cognos.UUCP (Alan Myrvold) (10/04/89)
This neat trick for rebooting a PC was brought to my attention:
$ echo ALT(205)CTRL(Y)> foo.com
$ foo
By ALT(205) I mean "hold down the ALT key while typing 205 on the
numeric keypad."
By CTRL(Y) I (obviously) mean "hold down the CTRL key and press y."
On the screen it will look (almost) like this :
$ echo =^Y> foo.com
except the = will be a bit longer than normal.
Hope this helps someone.
- Alan
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CANADA K1G 3Z4 bill@hpcvlx.cv.hp.com (Bill Frolik) (10/07/89)
| $ echo ALT(205)CTRL(Y)> foo.com | $ foo Sure, this reboots all right, if you put a boot floppy in drive A:. Don't count on it rebooting from your hard disk. Int 19h all by itself doesn't always cut it. This method also doesn't clean up any BIOS variables that DOS and/or any BIOS extension ROMs might have diddled with during the previous reboot. The surest way to reboot, I think, is still to set 40:72 to 1234 (warmboot flag, causes some of the power-up self-test code to be skipped) and do a far jump to FFFF:0000. ________________________________________ Bill Frolik Hewlett-Packard Co. hp-pcd!bill Corvallis, Oregon