> After a bit more playing around, it would appear that you don't > have to use > 'ping' - it can be *any* command you type at the prompt that takes long > enough for you to press F7 + Enter more than 5 or 6 times. For > example, I did > a "dir c:\progs /s" and whilst it was busy traversing the > directory tree, I > pressed F7 + Enter several times. When the "dir" was finished, > the machine > rebooted. It seems like it may be an overflow of some kind in the command > execution history facility. I tried something similar to this, and was able to reboot the system, but no BSOD or error messages. DOSKEY appears to not be able to handle multiple interruptions. Not surprising I guess, it was not written for this environment. Mark
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