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From: rspangle@jarthur.Claremont.EDU (Randy Spangler)
Newsgroups: comp.windows.ms
Subject: Re: ^ALT-DEL reboots at DOS prompt under Windows
Message-ID: <8020@jarthur.Claremont.EDU>
Date: 1 Aug 90 21:01:37 GMT
References: <1990Aug1.175914.11746@amd.com>
Organization: Harvey Mudd College, Claremont, CA 91711
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In article <1990Aug1.175914.11746@amd.com> indra@ashirvad.amd.com (Indra Singhal) writes:
>I am quite apalled that Windows is unable to trap the ctl-alt-del in a
>Dos-prompt shell opened from Win3. That causes me to loose every other
>open window within Windows. What is one expected to do if an
>application run in the DOS prompt shell were to hang? I think this a very
>serious omission.

Well, what I end up doing is hitting Alt-Esc to get back to Windows, and then
I click on the DOS icon, and terminate the application.

Admittedly, sometimes a DOS application will hang so badly that Alt--Esc
won't save you.  But then again, if that happens, CADel is unlikely to 
help either.

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Has anyone out there got a working copy of SPACE.SPX yet?
(the ScreenPeace saver file)

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