> 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
