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Re: Capturing the CTRL-A-A



Napisane 15-Lis-98 przez: Ignatios Souvatzis...
>On Sun, Nov 15, 1998 at 03:37:23PM +0100, Dante Profeta wrote:
>> 
>> No, it is not possible to disable hard-reset because it is handled
>> directly by the hardware.
>> On some Amiga is however possible to catch the reset-warning to finish
>> up any pending operations. I think this is the way disk syncing is
>> handled... there is a limited amount of time for the syncing opeartion
>> to be performed: the system will be reset anyway.

>... possibly in the midst of doing the sync, messing up your disk for sure,
>instead of just keeping it a bit out of date if you're lucky.

Exactly. One can only assume that some operations (e.g. sync) will be done in
10 secs... Noone can be sure about it though.

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