What is the close_down.exe?

[Guest Adrian]

Re: What is the close_down.exe?

 

"Ingeborg" <a@b.invalid> wrote in message

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> Adrian wrote:

>>

>> "Ingeborg" <a@b.invalid> wrote in message

>> news:Xns99A4613302B27abinvalid@194.109.133.133...

>> <snipped>

> I hope you mean WakeOnLan. It's a sevice supported by the BIOS, and both

> the motherboard and the NIC have to support it. In case of a seperate NIC

> a 2 wire line has to be connected between NIC and Mobo. See your mobo

> manual for details.

>

> To wake up a computer, you need a special program, which sends a special

> packet to the MAC address of the NIC. (Not to the IP address, since

> TCP/IP is a high level protocol, not provided by the BIOS). You can find

> lots of freeware programs for this. One of them:

> <http://gammadyne.com/cmdline.htm#wol>

>

>

> A note to your QBasic program:

> Did you realize that you should write the file before naming it? When

> your program does basically this:

>

> Create command.bat

> WriteTo command.bat

> Close command.bat

>

> it is possible that Win98Stop tries to execute the batch file between

> Create and WriteTo. What happens then is dependend of how QBasic opens

> the file, especially the sharing parameters. The safe way would be:

>

> Create command.tmp

> WriteTo command.tmp

> Close command.tmp

> Rename command.tmp command.bat

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Re the first paragraph (thank you for it): I will have to find out what the

acronyms mean and proceed from there.

 

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As to the bat-file and Qbasic code:

 

(Re your suggestions:) My bat-file contains:

 

:Again

if exist C:\Share\Stop.txt goto Execute

 

rem Wait for 10 seconds

ping -n 10 127.0.0.2 > nul

goto Again

 

:Execute

del C:\Share\Stop.txt

rundll32 krnl386.exe,exitkernel

goto Again

 

My Qbasic .exe simply creates a text-file. The setup (bat-file + Qbasic

..exe) works alright. I am delighted with it.

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I am currently in the process of finding out the spec for a big hard drive

the W98 box will take (q.v. my post).

 

Regards,

Adrian.