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- WATCHCAT.COM and WATCHKAT reboot the system if the text string "Hit any key to
- return to system" is detected in the leftmost 31 bytes of any of the 25 screen
- lines. (This is a QuickBASIC catch-all prompt which hangs an RBBS system on
- any error that the RBBS code does not specifically trap.)
-
- WATCHKAZ.COM dated 11-14-89 22:01:00 is a customized copy of WATCHKAT.COM dated
- 11-24-89 22:00:00 with the trigger text string zapped to "Cannot load COMMAND,
- system hal" for the Ivory Tower only, and is not intended for distribution.
-
- 12-03-89: Renamed WATCHKAZ.COM to WATCHKAT.COM and installed. KH
-
- 12-12-89: WATCHKAT.COM as modified is not intended for general distribution
- but a copy has been Uploaded to the BBS of the author of WATCHCAT.COM
- with notification that the mod is now posted on The Ivory Tower. If
- passed on this mod should be bundled with the original WATCHCAT.COM
- and WATCHCAT.DOC to give appropriate credit to the author of the
- original code. This utility has now run on The Ivory Tower for over a
- week with PCBoard 14.2/D code and been well behaved. The line
- WATCHKAT ON is in the Autoexec.bat of the board and the line WATCHKAT
- TIMER is in the BOARD.BAT. Caution -- before running mail or any other
- function which will leave the modem ON-HOOK be sure that WATCHKAT OFF
- has been issued or a caller might cause a system reboot in the middle
- of some procedure. One added function of this utility is that the
- line WATCHKAT ON will cause a system reboot when encountered in a
- running batch file.