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- Path: sparky!uunet!utcsri!devnull
- Newsgroups: alt.hackers
- From: flaps@explorer.dgp (Alan J Rosenthal)
- Subject: avoiding stupid ibm-pc boot sequences (was Re: hey y'all)
- Message-ID: <1992Nov20.174808.8282@jarvis.csri.toronto.edu>
- References: <gilligan.722123168@cs1.bradley.edu>
- Distribution: na
- Date: 20 Nov 92 22:48:08 GMT
- Approved: bart@simpson.springfield.nt.us
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- gilligan@cs1.bradley.edu (Edward Henigin) writes:
- >The computers in one lab at my school are all networked, and when you
- >boot them, they go to a menu. I hate menus, especially when I didn't
- >write it myself. I like to be in control. The <ctrl>-<break> key
- >was disabled, and the [exit to dos] command on the menu required a
- >password.
-
- It's easy to prevent an ibm-pc from running autoexec.bat.
-
- When you press ^S on an ibm-pc, the stupid thing just waits until you press ^Q
- (or is it just press any key?). (Real computers don't stop all processing just
- because output is suspended!) So with ^S and ^Q, you can manage to go slowly
- through the pre-autoexec.bat boot sequence, and you can manage to do a ^S in
- the middle of the first command.com prompt. Then press ^C and you're out.
-