Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!cs.utexas.edu!sun-barr!decwrl!dogie.macc.wisc.edu!vms.macc.wisc.edu From: gilmore@vms.macc.wisc.edu (Neil Gilmore) Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.tech Subject: Re: No more gurus! Message-ID: <2831@dogie.macc.wisc.edu> Date: 16 Dec 89 19:20:35 GMT Sender: news@dogie.macc.wisc.edu Organization: University of Wisconsin Academic Computing Center Lines: 20 In article <863@tardis.Tymnet.COM>, jms@tardis.Tymnet.COM (Joe Smith) writes... >In article <1540@geocub.greco-prog.fr> anthes@geocub.greco-prog.fr (Franklin Anthes) writes: (stuff deleted) >You could have the program send out a pulse once a second on pin 5 of the >mouse connector while it is running. (That pin is unused on a two-button >mouse.) After so many seconds with no pulse, RESET! Using multitasking should make it even easier, al the whole machine dies on a guru. A small program can send the signals necessary without needing any attention from the (real) application. >Joe Smith (408)922-6220 | SMTP: JMS@F74.TYMNET.COM or jms@gemini.tymnet.com >BT Tymnet Tech Services | UUCP: ...!{ames,pyramid}!oliveb!tymix!tardis!jms >PO Box 49019, MS-D21 | PDP-10 support: My car's license plate is "POPJ P," >San Jose, CA 95161-9019 | humorous dislaimer: "My Amiga speaks for me." +-----------------------------------------------------------------------+ | Kitakaze Tatsu Raito Neil Gilmore internet:gilmore@macc.wisc.edu | | Jararvellir, MACC, UW-Madison bitnet: gilmore@wiscmac3 | | Middle Kingdom Madison, Wi | +-----------------------------------------------------------------------+