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From: bryce@cbmvax.UUCP (Bryce Nesbitt)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.tech
Subject: Re: No more gurus!
Message-ID: <8938@cbmvax.UUCP>
Date: 11 Dec 89 20:20:35 GMT
References: <1540@geocub.greco-prog.fr>
Reply-To: bryce@cbmvax.UUCP (Bryce Nesbitt)
Organization: Commodore Technology, West Chester, PA
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In article <1540@geocub.greco-prog.fr> anthes@geocub.greco-prog.fr (Franklin Anthes) writes:
>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...

A little program called Cancel! is just what you want.  It presses
Cancel! on any requester that comes up. (For example: Insert disk in DFX:).
Cancel! without source code is also on the Software toolkit from
Commodore-Amiga.  Cancel! with source code should be on a Fish disk.

You could easily modify Cancel! for Alerts.  However, some crashes
will be too severe for any ram-loaded software solution.  You could:

	1> Create a hardware device that plugs into the mouse port that
	   continually presses the left button.

	2> Create a watchdog timer.  Unless your software triggers this
           every N milliseconds, the system will be RESET.

For V1.4 Kickstart, "It's in there".  A special plug in will disable
Alerts.

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