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- From: mstaben@comtch.spk.wa.us (Matthew Staben)
- Newsgroups: comp.os.os2.misc
- Subject: Re: Hot-key to kill WPS?
- Message-ID: <cD28wB1w165w@comtch.spk.wa.us>
- Date: 11 Jan 93 16:37:35 GMT
- References: <1993Jan9.085844.886@netcom.com>
- Sender: bbs@comtch.spk.wa.us (Waffle bbs)
- Organization: Waffle BBS at CompuTech Spokane, Washington
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- stewarta@netcom.com (Alex Stewart) writes:
-
- > My 2 cents:
- >
- > In the days of DOS, Ctrl-Alt-Del was a very handy thing and worked quite
- > nicely. It rebooted your machine.
- >
- > In these days of Windows and OS/2, however, this becomes something of a
- > problem. Reboot a single-tasking computer and you know exactly what you're
- > doing. You lose one program, and possibly some changes to your data for that
- > program. Reboot OS/2, and you lose one program, and the Workplace shell, and
- > your editor, and your other session running god-knows-what, and this all
- > happens intantly when you hit one key combination.
- >
- > Scenario: A user fairly new to OS/2 is running a full-screen DOS app and it
- > hangs. What do thay do? Why the tried-and-true Ctrl-Alt-Del will do it!
- > Oops. Well, it _looked_ like DOS. I forgot I was running CriticalApp in
- > another window. Too late now...
- >
- > (note: this has happened to me (although, admittedly, CriticalApp wasn't tha
- > critical)).
- >
- > Nevertheless, Ctrl-Alt-Del should still be able to get you out if everything
- > comes crashing down around you, even in OS/2. Simple solution: Ctrl-Alt-Del
- > pops up a little box (just like the shutdown box), that says "Whoa! You're i
- > OS/2 now, remember? Sure you want to do this? I could just kill off that on
- > app for you if you want, or you can go on and reboot the whole machine." (ok,
- > so the wording would be a bit different).
- >
- > Ctrl-Alt-Del doesn't accidentally wipe out everything, but Ctrl-Alt-Del can g
- > you out of a system hang. Bingo.
- >
- > -alex
- > --
- > -----------------------------------------------------------------------------
- > Alex Stewart: Sysop of YBBS (510) 689-8952 | This space for rent.
- > stewarta@netcom.com .----------------------------'-------------------------
- > stewarta@carleton.edu | Somebody, somewhere, is offended by what I am saying.
- > -----------------------------------------------------------------------------
-
-
- So... Why don't you make a routine which traps the three-finger salute -
- it shouldn't be too difficult!
-
-
- mstaben@comtch.spk.wa.us
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