From:	Endlisnis <s257m AT unb DOT ca>
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Subject:	Re: Reboot the computer.
Date:	Mon, 07 Sep 1998 18:10:43 -0300
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Eli Zaretskii wrote:
> >       OK, I haven't tried it under CWSDPMI, but under Win95, using "__dpmi_int" is
> > very ... unpleasent.  The direct 'int' just quickly closes the box, the
> > "__dpmi_int" locks your machine for 5 seconds, then displays a dialog box
> > which you have to click to close the box.
> You cannot reboot under Windows, so this is probably irrelevant, as the
> person who asked this question wanted to reboot the machine (obviously in
> plain DOS).
	I suspect there are some API calls that will allow a program to reboot the
machine.  Also, I had a program (years ago) that was 20bytes long and would
reboot a computer.  If you just put 0xCD,0x19 as the only 2 bytes in a file,
call it "reboot.com", then it will reboot the machine using a 'quick' boot
(before DOS 7).  The 20 byte program I found would do a 'normal' boot under
old DOS and Win31, I lost it before I got Win95, so I don't know if it would
work.  I suspect there is a consistant way to reboot a Win95 machine from a
DOS App.

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