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From: dgy@rtd.com (Don Yuniskis)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc
Subject: Re: Powering Down
Date: 12 Jul 1997 02:05:24 GMT
Organization: CICDO
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Message-ID: <5q6op4$dam@baygull.rtd.com>
References: <33c49208.1255785@news.dixonssurgical.co.uk> <5q37ha$kao@baygull.rtd.com> <5q4v6j$e0m$2@polaris.eurocontrol.fr>
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In article <5q4v6j$e0m$2@polaris.eurocontrol.fr>,
Ollivier Robert <roberto@eurocontrol.fr> wrote:
>
> [courtesy cc of this posting sent to cited author via email]
>
>In article <5q37ha$kao@baygull.rtd.com>, Don Yuniskis <dgy@rtd.com> wrote:
>> #sync
>> #sync
>>
>> they are probably unnecessary :> followed by
>
>The Magic Number of sync is supposed to be three. :-)
Hmm... I always thought *two* :
one "schedules" the sync
the second ensures the first has completed before *it* "completes"...
??
--don