In article <8ee8e81155.geo...@tiscali..co.uk>, george greenfield <george.greenfi...@tiscali.co.uk> wrote: > In message <ae92dd1155.ga...@wra1th.plus.com> Gavin Wraith > <ga...@wra1th.plus.com> wrote:
> > In message <35e4e54c747.00000d53d...@davehigton.me.uk> Dave Higton > > <d...@davehigton.me.uk> wrote: > > > > > >>There's another point worth making here. If you think NS has > >>crashed, use Alt-Break. Note: NEVER use Ctrl-Break, various RISC OS > >>luminaries class it as Evil and say it Breaks Discs. > > > > Thanks very much for this. -- Gavin Wraith (ga...@wra1th.plus.com) > > Home page: http://www.wra1th.plus.com/ > > > I must confess to having used Ctrl-Break from time to time, when faced > with a frozen desktop, without evident ill-effects. Is it considered > worse than powering-off at the switch, which is the only other option > AFAIK? This is from my obey file Boot:choices.boot.tasks.Tim's | next line disables ctrl/break; use reset. see message | <bea5bc2b4d....@sandford.ntlworld.com> Fx 247 169 0 Good luck finding that message. Sometimes the internet is less than useless. -- Tim Hill www.timil.com web sites * multimedia * training
