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From: cd5340@mars.njit.edu (Charlap)
Newsgroups: comp.os.msdos.misc
Subject: Re: Warm or cold boot?
Keywords: reboot, boot
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Date: 31 Jan 91 03:09:14 GMT
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In article <20816@hydra.gatech.EDU> np4@prism.gatech.EDU (POMPONIO,NICHOLAS A) writes:
>How can a program determine whether the latest boot was warm or cold?
>
>
 
Well, mine can.  When the mouse driver is loaded, my modem dies completely,
requiring a hard-reset to fix it.  So, I can just try to communicate with
the modem.  If it fails, it wasn't a coldboot.  (of course, if I load the
mouse driver after a coldboot, the modem is still dead...)

--- David Charlap (cd5340@mars.njit.edu)