Path: utzoo!mnetor!uunet!husc6!uwvax!puff!avery
From: avery@puff.cs.wisc.edu (Aaron Avery)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga
Subject: Re: I have a problem with AmigaDOS ...
Message-ID: <1455@puff.cs.wisc.edu>
Date: 9 Mar 88 12:13:25 GMT
References: <287@dcdwest.UUCP> <256@ra> <925@aucs.UUCP>
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In article <925@aucs.UUCP>, 840493n@aucs.UUCP (Bill Nickerson) writes:
> 
> ... I have an installation where the Amiga screen must stay 
> intact and no system requesters or otherwise can appear. If such a thing 
> occurs or a file gets mangled and a "read/write" error message is to be 
> displayed, I want the entire machine to reboot and execute the start-up 
> sequence. You see if a requester appears, it stays there until user 
> intervention occurs. I want the machine itself to take that interrupt 
> and reboot the system. 

Bryce Nesbitt wrote a program he called 'Cancel!', which does just this.
It is a (very) beta version, but may suit your needs, and Bryce says that
he'll be releasing a final version soon. He posted it to the net a while
ago, and if you don't find it elsewhere, I'll be happy to send it to you.

Aaron Avery (avery@puff.cs.wisc.edu)
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