Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!cs.utexas.edu!usc!apple!justin From: justin@Apple.COM (Justin Walker) Newsgroups: comp.unix.aux Subject: Re: MacOS => A/UX porting woes Message-ID: <50668@apple.Apple.COM> Date: 23 Mar 91 04:19:56 GMT References: <1991Mar13.141628.22733@helios.physics.utoronto.ca> Organization: Apple Computer Inc., Cupertino, CA Lines: 37 In article d88-jwa@byse.nada.kth.se (Jon W{tte) writes: >In article <> sysmark@physics.utoronto.ca (Mark Bartelt) writes: > ... >Did you have a getty on one of the serial ports ? I always have, >so I can fire up a comm program on my girlfriends SE and kill -9 >the mac when it hangs. > >You can also try command-control-I (for interrupt) or command-control-E >(for exit) if you have MacsBug 6.2.anything installed. That ususally >gets you out of the mac environment. (You might have to type >^Jscreenrestore^Jstty sane^J by hand afterwards, though) > The cmd-ctrl-I and cmd-ctrl-e sequences work regardless of the presence of MacsBug. If MacsBug is installed, cmd-ctrl-I will get you MacsBug, like the "abort" programmers switch. You shouldn't ever need to "kill -9" startmac; use cmd-ctrl-e instead. >That's it. > > h+@nada.kth.se > Jon W{tte Cheers, Justin Justin C. Walker, Curmudgeon-At-Large * A/UX Engineering | Apple Computer, Inc. | Try visualizing whirled peas. 10300 Bubb Rd, | Cupertino, CA 95014 * -- Justin C. Walker, Curmudgeon-At-Large * A/UX Group | Apple Computer, Inc. | When meetings are outlawed, 10300 Bubb Rd, | Only outlaws will have meetings Cupertino, CA 95014 *