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Re: Novice question: how to boot from a bat file?

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From: Tony Porczyk
Date: Tue, 01 Sep 1992 19:43
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kennu@mits.mdata.fi (Kenneth Falck) writes:

>But anyway, if someone
>wants to reboot from a batch file, why not just first ask the user
>to press a key to signal that he has flushed the cache buffers,
>and then reboot freely?

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.

t.
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From: messina@netcom.com (Tony Porczyk)
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Subject: Re: Novice question: how to boot from a bat file?
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