Re: Late night hallucinations

[Xav <MBGE4MDC@fs1.ee.man.ac.uk>]

> 
>     I was up really late screwing around under MiNT this week (like, 10:30
> am) and deciding it was well past my bedtime, I hit CTRL-ALT-DEL.  Nothing
> happened for a moment, then I saw the message syslog gives when it
> terminates, saying it caught signal 15.  The next instant my machine
> reset.  I got the impression that MiNT (or perhaps Vcons) had killed all
> the processes to let them shut down before resetting.  I think I may have
> accidentally hit CTRL-ALT-\ at the same time as DEL.  Anyhow, I vaugely
> recall thinking, "Whoa.. Cool!" and trying it a few more times (it
> worked).
> 
>     Does MiNT actually DO this?  I've never seen it before!  Was I just 
> totally crackers?  Why _DOESN'T_ MiNT do this?  It surely could, couldn't it?

You've got an STFM or before haven't you?!? I discovered this whilst 
borrowing a friends STFM (after mine died) - I always do a CTRL-ALT-
F1 to look for the Sync message before switching off (MultiTOS), and 
was well impressed by this feature. I eventually bought a friends STe 
as a replacement, and this no longer works. I assume that CTRL-ALT-
DEL is being caught before it reaches MiNT (the STe has a CTRL-ALT-
DEL feature naturally, the FM don't). Does anyone know if it's 
possible to force the former (preferable) action, since it ensures 
that a Sync has been done, even if I reset from the keyboard.

Cheers,

Xav
 








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