[CCTALK] Test post and DEC Unix question

From: Huw Davies <Huw.Davies_at_kerberos.davies.net.au>
Date: Thu May 16 02:24:30 2002

At 09:28 AM 15/05/2002 -0700, Ethan Dicks wrote:

>Still curious about the "0" in your sample line, though.

It's because the flag register is a 64 bit quantity. The first digit is the
top 32 bits, the digit after the comma is the lower. AFAIK the top 32 bits
aren't used in Tru64 but when booting OpenVMS they are used to indicate the
system root to boot from when you have a shared system disk.

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