Re: send restart message

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From: Chris Marriott
Date: Wed, 27 Jan 1993 23:02

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In article <RIETH.93Jan24120629@namu02.gwdg.de> rieth@namu01.gwdg.de writes:

>i am looking for the possibility to restart windows from an application. 
>I know that i just have to send some kind of a message to windows and 
>that it (ofcourse) has something to do with the number 42 in the parameters
>or something like that.
>
>does anyone know the exact message followup with parametervalues for windows
>and if special for BorlandC++3.1 ???
>
> any kind of message to me would be nice
>   i say 42, BrainMan 
>

The function call you need is:

    ExitWindows( EW_RESTARTWINDOWS, 0 );

where, as you suggested, EW_RESTARTWINDOWS is a constant (defined in WINDOWS.H
which has the value 0x42.

Best wishes,

Chris
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