CLASSICCMP digest 759

From: Mark Tapley <mtapley_at_swri.edu>
Date: Tue May 4 13:28:26 1999

>r. said:
>On Fri, 30 Apr 1999, Huw Davies wrote:

>The NeXTs don't even really have power switches.

Command-command-~ is supposed to bring up a monitor through a non-maskable
interrupt, into which you can enter the command ? for info on available
commands. "halt" saves files to disk and gracefully halts the system. "mon"
goes to the ROM monitor but does not gracefully halt the system.

An emergency shutdown is available by pressing <left alternate>-<left
command>-<numeric keypad *>. (on an ADB keyboard, use the command bar
instead of the left command key). This will not power off the computer but
will do a hard reset of the CPU. This does *not* result in a clean
shutdown, and can damage an optical disk if it's in the middle of a write
operation (so I hope you didn't just do it ;-) ).
                                                        - Mark
Received on Tue May 04 1999 - 13:28:26 BST