[plug] policy issue - need to restart computers

[Steve Grasso]

Mike,

[snippity]
> I know that you can run a line in debug ( -g=ffff:0000) which runs the
> P.O.S.T) hence restarts the computer but I'm wondering if anyone knows
> how to restart the computer from the dos prompt (or knows of a small
> program or any other way of doing so).  (Unfortunately neither the debug
> trick nor a program called "restart" work in the windows environment.  I
> need to find something that will.
[snippity snip]


Dredged from the satisfyingly dim past....b.com (attached)
Performs a warm reboot of DOSish machines when invoked from the command line.
Yetch!

(shutdown -r is much neater...but don't try it from DOS!)

Regards,
Steve
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