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From: avie@wb1.cs.cmu.edu (Avadis Tevanian)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next
Subject: Re: restarting after a lockup, suggestions?
Message-ID: <6933@pt.cs.cmu.edu>
Date: 11 Nov 89 01:39:24 GMT
References: <17503@kuhub.cc.ukans.edu>
Organization: NeXT, Inc.
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In article <17503@kuhub.cc.ukans.edu> 2FHGKINGLY@kuhub.cc.ukans.edu writes:
>Problem: When using YAP and experimenting with Postscript code, I often
>use my God given talent of locking up the machine.
>
>Question: When I get into the monitor, is there a special address I could
>set the PC to in order to 'reset', but not reboot the machine?  When the
>NeXT locks up, there are open files.  This makes fsck do its thing on
>reboot which takes about 5 minutes (330 Mb).

If you lock up your system in such a way (most likely due to hanging up
the window system), you can cleanly reboot using the right-command backquote
key combination (just above 7 on the keypad).
-- 
Avadis Tevanian, Jr.    (Avie)
Manager, System Software
NeXT, Inc.
avie@NeXT.COM