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From: REL@MTUS5.BITNET (Robert Landsparger)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.wizards
Subject: Re: Stupid man pages
Message-ID: <90163.011455REL@MTUS5.BITNET>
Date: 12 Jun 90 06:14:55 GMT
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Organization: Computing Technology Services, Michigan Technological Univ.
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At least this man entry was not changed in the "up-grading":

>man page for reboot:
>
>..skipping some...
>
>OPTIONS
>     -d   Dump ..etc...
>
>     -n   Avoid the sync(1).  It can be used if  a  disk  or  the
>          processor is on fire.
>
>...rest of man page....

Excuse me, but can someone tell me why you would want to reboot if the
machine was on fire?  Always trying to learn something new!  I guess if
the drive head didn't sync and didn't pass through the flames and the
"boot" area was not engulfed in fire, the machine might come back up.
I don't know...

Bob Landsparger