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Date: Mon, 18 Nov 2002 10:26:32 -0500
From: Mark Blackburn <marklist AT fangorn DOT ca>
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Subject: Re: /bin/shutdown on ME
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Igor Pechtchanski wrote:

>Quoting from the ExitWindowsEx page on MSDN:
>  Windows 95/98/Me: ExitWindowEx does not work from a console application.
>(the typo is theirs)
>
>One solution I tried, consequently, is making shutdown into a window
>(WinMain) application, using the run program as a template.  No luck so
>far.  I can post the code I currently have, in case others have further
>insights.
>	Igor
>  
>
If you run shutdown from a bash session in one of the old versions of 
rxvt (the ones that were compiled as a GUI app) it works fine on Win98.

Personally I have two version of rxvt on my machine, the regular console 
compiled one (-Wl,--subsystem,console) and one that is compiled as a GUI 
app (-Wl,--subsystem,windows) and I rename it to rxvtw.

I do this because the way that cygwin interacts console programs tends 
to lock up my machine every once in a while. Though I blame the Trident 
9750 video driver since I get pretty patterns on the screen when it 
locks up.





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