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From: bs@Germany.EU.net (Bernard Steiner)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd
Subject: Re: shutdown (The other one) source
Keywords: shutdown
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Date: 23 Sep 92 13:19:54 GMT
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In article <38468@sdcc12.ucsd.edu>, afong@sdcc13.ucsd.edu (Krell Kraver) writes:
> I'm looking for source for the shutdown command that has the
> -todos option, because it doesn't work for me, and it looks
> like the one I see source for isn't that one.  Or has this
> problem already been solved?

386bsd (/usr/distbin/)shutdown -todos only works for 8bit FATs (whatever that
is... what is DOS, anyway ?), so I think making a <=30 meg 'C:' partition
and a (possibly larger) secondary 'D:' partition may or may not work.

Anybody tried this ?

-Bernard
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