Message-ID: <3AC170A6.B916289F@pysmatic.com> Date: Tue, 27 Mar 2001 22:03:34 -0700 From: Neal X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.5 [en]C-CCK-MCD {TLC;RETAIL} (WinNT; U) X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: opendos AT delorie DOT com Subject: Re: shutting down References: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Reply-To: opendos AT delorie DOT com I DOS at the C:\ prompt (or other drive), just hit the power switch to kill the computer. DOS could care less... Neal ==== DONALD PEDDER wrote: > > Hi all, > > I have one of these modern boxes which switches off automatically when > you do a "shutdown" in Windows. If I try to switch it off when in DOS it > just goes into standby mode (screen goes off, but power is still on). > > My question is, is there a way to make it act the same way in DOS? Is > there a command I can issue similar to Windows which will switch the box > off? > The only way I can currently get if off after being in DOS is to > re-boot to Windows and do a "shutdown", or to switch it off immediately > upon re-boot (I can switch it off while it's still under the control of > the BIOS, but not once DOS takes over). I am reluctant to use the latter > method as you could be switching it off while the disk is in the middle of > a read (which wouldn't be good for the disk I imagine). > > I have DR-DOS 7.03, and various versions of MS-DOS (Win95, Win98SE). > > regards, > DONALD - Left-Brain Extraordinaire,Right-Brain in Rehab. > > E-mail - donaldp AT au DOT mensa DOT org > BIG DON's Home-page - http://www.jedi.apana.org.au/~jims_son > (Pedder Passer(Quarterback) Rating,Kirlian photo's,the best of The Beast) > > "What I always wanted is to be accepted,not understood" - MAN RAY -- The DOS Places........... http://dosonly.com/ http://dosonly.net/ http://drdos.pysmatic.net/ http://drdos.port5.com/ http://drdos.portland.co.uk/ http://moedos.net/