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- From: kennu@mits.mdata.fi (Kenneth Falck)
- Subject: Re: Novice question: how to boot from a bat file?
- Message-ID: <1992Sep2.152354.3655@mits.mdata.fi>
- Organization: Microdata Oy, Helsinki, Finland
- References: <1992Aug31.214211.20267@midway.uchicago.edu> <1992Sep1.155702.18745@mits.mdata.fi> <+1jnzbp.messina@netcom.com>
- Date: Wed, 2 Sep 1992 15:23:54 GMT
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- In article <+1jnzbp.messina@netcom.com> messina@netcom.com (Tony Porczyk) writes:
- >And of course, if your software grabs the critical error and reboots
- >the software while running an unattended process (for example at
- >night), you are going to wait for the user to press a key, right?
- >Get real.
-
- Uh? I'm sorry but I'm not quite sure what's the point here. If
- the process wants to reboot at night, I believe it has no standard
- way of making sure the cache buffers have been flushed before
- the reboot. (Except maybe waiting for a couple of seconds, but
- I wouldn't rely on that myself since who knows what kind of
- update-every-30-minutes caches people use.)
-
- My "solution" was merely meant for batch files that need to
- reboot after an automatic replacement of autoexec.bat or
- config.sys and that sort of stuff.
-
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