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From: valley@gsbsun.uchicago.edu (Doug Dougherty)
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Subject: Re: Wanted: TSR to "kill" program and return to DOS
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Date: 28 May 91 16:10:32 GMT
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grantham@super.ORG (Jon Grantham) writes:

>I have a few annoying old games that won't let you exit (after all, everybody
>just boots from their floppy every time they start a new program, right?).
>Actually, the games aren't annoying, they're kinda fun, which is why I put up
>with this...
>But it would be nice to be able to run a TSR that has some hot-key or something
>that lets me get out of the game without using the "hot-key" "ctrl-alt-delete".
>Is there a program like that out there?  Or is this just fundamentally
>incompatible with the nature of DOS?  By the way, the game I'm thinking of is
>Computer Diplomacy by Avalon Hill.

Easy solution: Run it under DesqView.  Then C/A/D gets you back to the
DV menu.

If this is not an option, I did write such an TSR as you suggest, quite
some time ago (for just that reason [before I started using DV])

Email me if you want a copy.
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