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dsims@uceng.UC.EDU (david l sims) writes:

>Does anyone know of any techniques to use in the following scenario:

>Say I'm running a BBS that uses a program like DOORWAY or GATEWAY to
>run another program outside the BBS (a door). Now say that the door
>runs another program on its own, and then *that* program runs another
>program on its own, and so on until we have 6 or 7 processes out there.

>Now, say the caller idles too long and GATEWAY wants to hangup on him
>and terminate all processes and return to the BBS. I noticed that DOS
>function 4Bh or something like that (terminate process) says that it
>terminates the *current* process. Well, if we've got 6 or 7 processes
>going, that won't get kill all the extra ones and get us back to the BBS.

>I hope that anyone who generally knows what I'm talking about has the idea.
>Would you share any techniques you might use or know of to solve this
>potential problem?

>Thanks much.

There are no signals in DOS...

The standard solution is to reboot the machine.  Use WATCHDOG.COM.