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From: pajerek@usenet@kadsma (Don Pajerek)
Newsgroups: comp.windows.ms
Subject: Re: ^ALT-DEL reboots at DOS prompt under Windows
Message-ID: <1990Aug1.211932.10892@usenet@kadsma>
Date: 1 Aug 90 21:19:32 GMT
References: <1990Aug1.175914.11746@amd.com>
Reply-To: pajerek@isctsse.UUCP (Don Pajerek)
Organization: Eastman Kodak Telecommunication Services, Rochester, N.Y. 14650
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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.
>--
>iNDRA | indra@amd.com (Indra Singhal) (408) 749-5445


If you are running a DOS application in a window, there is an option
on the 'system' menu ('Settings') that allows you to terminate an
application externally. Note that this may be available in 386 mode
only (but who'd want to run Windows any other way?).


Don Pajerek