2FHGKINGLY@kuhub.cc.ukans.edu (11/10/89)
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). I'm not a Unix expert, but I don't think it would be a good idea to comment out the fsck command in the rc file either. Any suggestions, or is this just extra incentive to not lock up the machine? Blake Hughes, undergrad, University of Kansas
avie@wb1.cs.cmu.edu (Avadis Tevanian) (11/11/89)
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