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From: toma@tekgvs.LABS.TEK.COM (Tom Almy)
Newsgroups: comp.binaries.ibm.pc.d
Subject: Re: RESTART config.sys/autoexec.bat manager (Question)
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Date: 20 Oct 89 16:37:00 GMT
References: <32012@ucbvax.BERKELEY.EDU>
Reply-To: toma@tekgvs.LABS.TEK.COM (Tom Almy)
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In article <32012@ucbvax.BERKELEY.EDU> guesgen@icsi.berkeley.edu () writes:
>I recently got a copy of RESTART, which is a config.sys/autoexec.bat
>manager. I like the concept of this program, however, it does not run
>on my machine properly. The reason probably is that I am using the PCKWIK
>disk accelerator, which causes RESTART to boot my machine before the 
>AUTOEXEC.BAT file is written.

I'm posting this because it is of general use.
Unless there is some safe way for a program to do a "reboot" with such
disk caching software, you need to always run RESTART with the -n (no reboot)
option, and then manually do a ctrl-alt-del.

Tom Almy
toma@tekgvs.labs.tek.com (Address change was unavoidable)
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