On Tue, 19 Jul 2016, Dave McGuire via vcf-midatlantic wrote:
On 07/19/2016 08:38 PM, Neil Cherry via vcf-midatlantic wrote:
Yes! I got the login and password from Evan. Then Jonathan G. and David ?. helped me figure out the command to properly shutdown: sync;sync;sync;shutdown.
These young whippersnappers just don't understand the value of a triple-sync. :-)
The earliest machine I've worked with was the Unix PC with SRV2. I've not had to use anything more than dual sync (sync, sync, SOH).
Actually none of us ever HAD to do anymore than zero syncs. A final sync() is done before the filesystem is umounted. Doing a sync at all, especially more than one, is nothing more than superstition.
I myself use two. =)
-Dave
I regularly use two on Xenix 3.2 on the Tandy 6000. :-) Mike Loewen mloewen@cpumagic.scol.pa.us Old Technology http://q7.neurotica.com/Oldtech/