Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Path: utzoo!mnetor!seismo!rutgers!mit-eddie!rassilon From: rassilon@eddie.MIT.EDU (Brian Preble) Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc Subject: Re: A Lethal Command Message-ID: <6046@eddie.MIT.EDU> Date: Tue, 9-Jun-87 21:38:34 EDT Article-I.D.: eddie.6046 Posted: Tue Jun 9 21:38:34 1987 Date-Received: Fri, 12-Jun-87 05:38:32 EDT References: <3163@well.UUCP> <4040@amd.UUCP> <4068@ihlpa.ATT.COM> <541@brueer.ee.brunel.ac.uk> Reply-To: rassilon@eddie.MIT.EDU (Brian Preble) Organization: MIT, EE/CS Computer Facilities, Cambridge, MA Lines: 17 In article <541@brueer.ee.brunel.ac.uk> ralph@ee.brunel.ac.uk (Ralph Mitchell) writes: >In article <4068@ihlpa.ATT.COM> freak@ihlpa.UUCP (45261-Malloy,C.E.) writes: >>> echo >"=" >>> ... >> While this command does stop my AT&T PC6300, the CTRL-ALT-DEL >>sequence will re-boot the system. Does this make the AT&T PC6300 superior??? > >My ACT Apricot just says "Divide overflow" and carries on going. Does this >make it even more superior ?? This is with Microsoft MS-DOS version 2.11. My 286 AT says "Invalid filename" before dying. At least it displays the right error message. Don't you think there's been enough on this? Has anyone talked to Microsoft about it? -- Rassilon