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Re: Rebooting (was Re: help! /private/vm/swapfile 44MB. How to shrink it?)

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From: Jean Laroche
Date: Wed, 09 Sep 1992 07:32
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In article <1992Sep8.171911.7619@reed.edu> horde@reed.edu (Mr. Heiji Horde)  
writes:
> heh...what's really fun is when the NeXT gets SOOO frozen that you can't
> break out either by hitting the power key or <cmd>-<cmd>-~. Then you
> get to use the reset switch...you yank the cord out of the wall.
> I like the reset switches on my DECs and MACs. They're much nicer than
>   having to cut off the power to the machine. But, hey, the NeXTs don't
>   seem to mind too much. And some of ours have been around since 0.9 with
>   only 2 reformats of their hard disks.

There is an alternative to pulling the cord: Hard Reset: 
"Press the left Alternate and Command Keys and the numeric keypad * key."

p. 155 of the network and system administration manual.

J.Laroche
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