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- Reset.com
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- A program primarily used for restarting your machine just as if you have
- turned on the machine for use!
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- Installation:
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- Copy RESET.COM to your DOS subdirectory. To use it, just type RESET and
- watch as your machine goes through the POST (power on self test) sequence
- and reboots DOS. That's it!
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- What it Does:
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- What this program really does is to totally reboot the computer as if
- you just turned it on! In detail, it relocates itself into high ram and
- starts zeroing out from page 0 of ram until where it locates and clears out
- the graphics memory and screen memory. When it is done, it does a long JMP
- to FFFF:0 where the entry point for the BIOS init routine starts. The hard
- drive is never touched by this program and did not want it to. It just
- causes the machine to power up in it't default state just as if you turned on
- your machine! I use it alot because some programs leave your machine in some
- graphics mode or some other mode where you don't want and to remove some
- resident programs you no longer need in memory when the application is
- finished! I use it here as a function key assignment in my mailer when I
- want to fire-up PC-Tools through a batch file and when finished with
- PC-Tools, calls up the reset and the machine goes through the POST program. I
- originally wrote a similar program when the CP/M machines used to be out if
- you remember those Z80 machines and the associated commands such as PIP
- B:=A:*.* and so on.
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- How much? It's free! Because it's free, don't expect me to be responsible
- for ANYTHING. You use it at YOUR OWN RISK. It works in my machine and has
- for over two years. If it breaks yours then it must be because it is in YOUR
- machine and you are the one that put it there, not me.
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- All kidding aside, I think you will like it.
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- (*) Fred Weigel (*)
- (*) The Commerce City Computer Connections(*)
- (*) FIDO 1:104/767 (*)
- (*) 1(303)289-2968 (*)
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