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From: dwb@well.UUCP
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac
Subject: Re: New Shutdown
Message-ID: <2698@well.UUCP>
Date: Tue, 3-Mar-87 23:32:24 EST
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Posted: Tue Mar  3 23:32:24 1987
Date-Received: Fri, 6-Mar-87 01:42:31 EST
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Reply-To: dwb@well.UUCP (David W. Berry)
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In article <1337@husc6.UUCP> fry@huma1.UUCP (David Fry) writes:
>
>What's the difference between "Restart" and "Shutdown" in the
>new Finder 5.4?  When I select Shutdown on my MacPlus with
>WhisperDrive SCSI drive, I get crashed back to Macsbug, but
>typing "RB" there causes an instanteous reboot, as though the
>Shutdown process worked.  Selecting Restart causes a near
>instanteous reboot that is preceeded by a half second "whirr"
>from my drive 

	Restart does what "Shutdown" used to do.  Sync's everything
up and goes through the reboot procedure.  It doesn't, however,
redo the diagnostics so it happens much quicker.

	Shutdown issues a new System Error number to [possibly
sync the disks, this may get done before the error is issued]
display a dialog that says you can safely turn things off.  Avoids
the question that we heard so often not so long ago "when can I
turn my disk off?"  (Not to mention endless arguments about
same.)  Unfortunately the older ROM's don't understand the
error message and give you the standard default bomb.
-- 
	David W. Berry
	dwb@well.uucp                   dwb@Delphi
	dwb@GEnie                       293-0752@408.MaBell