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- Hot-boot
- by Jason Loveman
-
- Hot-boot is an alternative mechanism for breaking out of a program
- or situation that has gone astray. It augments the existing break
- features of DOS and the PC--ctrl-alt-del and ctrl-break. The problem
- with ctrl-alt-del (warm boot) is that it can take several minutes
- in a machine which has a long autoexec procedure. Ctrl-break is a
- better alternative, but it is frequently disabled by application
- programs, or it may not be available because the runaway program
- may not be doing DOS calls.
-
- Hot-boot suffers none of these difficulties. It cannot be disabled
- unless hard interrupts are disabled (in which case ctrl-alt-del
- won't work either), it takes only a fraction of a second and does
- not have to re-run any TSR's or other set-up programs from the
- autoexec.
-
- Instructions:
-
- just run HOT.COM to install hot-boot
-
- install hot-boot in your tsr list at the point(s) to which
- you might want to restore.
-
- do NOT run HOT after SideKick
-
- CTRL-ALT-INS will invoke hot-boot.
-
- example:
-
- you have keyworks and sidekick resident - you want 2 Hotboots
-
- (in autoexec)
-
- hot
- key
- hot
- sk
-
- if you need to hotboot, ctrl-alt-ins will get you out of your application.
- It will also dump sidekick.
- Invoking hotboot (ctrl-alt-ins) a second time will dump keyworks.
-
-
- IMPORTANT: after invoking hot-boot, it will remove itself. If you wish
- to continue with hot-boot still installed, you must re-install it
- by typing "hot".
-
- Hotboot will not change your video mode at invocation.
- If you invoke it when the screen is not in an alpha mode,
- you will then have to use (mode mono or mode co80) to restore
- your video mode.
-
- Toad Hall Tweaks
- v3.6 (assuming original was v3.5)
- - Moved Page 0 save buffer to end of code space (reduces program size)
- - Using the saved Int 9 vector in that buffer instead of other
- (cruder, slower) methods.
- David Kirschbaum
- Toad Hall
- kirsch@braggvax.ARPA