Path: utzoo!attcan!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!rutgers!cbmvax!mks
From: mks@cbmvax.UUCP (Michael Sinz - CATS)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.tech
Subject: Re: No more gurus!
Message-ID: <8913@cbmvax.UUCP>
Date: 9 Dec 89 13:21:33 GMT
References: <1540@geocub.greco-prog.fr>
Reply-To: mks@cbmvax.UUCP (Michael Sinz - CATS)
Organization: Commodore Technology, West Chester, PA
Lines: 35

In article <1540@geocub.greco-prog.fr> anthes@geocub.greco-prog.fr (Franklin Anthes) writes:
>
>	I'm thinking of seting up amigas in remote locations, up to
>several hundred miles away. Now as every on knows, perfect software
>has not been invented yet:-( Soooo... If the machine gurus, I'd
>like to have the machine reboot automatically, instead of waiting
>for somebody to click the left mouse button (especially since there
>might not even be a mouse connected to the machine!).
>
>	Is this possible? I don't seem to recall any PD software for
>this purpose, but hope springs eternal....

This should be a simple hack.  You just need a little bit of code that
set-functions the Alert() exec call that is used to display the GURU.
This replacement for Alert() would just return with the result in D0
such that the caller thinks the button was pressed.  However, "hard"
crashes can not be stopped this way as you may need to catch a GURU
after the crash and before the boot.  This would have to be done by
having part of the reset/reboot code reload the setfunction needed for
the Alert() call.  Should be a fun project...  ;^)

>
>-- 
>
>	Frank Anthes-Harper :  Bien le bonjour de la France
>	anthes@geocub.greco-prog.fr


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