[SunRescue] OBP coolness

[Hatle, Steven J.]

That would be your "OpenBoot Prom" (for Suns) and "Open Firmware" (for G3/G4
Macs)

Steve

-----Original Message-----
From: Gil Young [mailto:gjyoung at cfl.rr.com]
Sent: Thursday, May 31, 2001 2:52 PM
To: rescue at sunhelp.org
Subject: Re: [SunRescue] OBP coolness


Help rescue my brain!  Whats an OBP and an OF?

Thanks!
Gil

At 01:05 PM 5/31/01 -0400, you wrote:
>A typo lead to a discovery. The OBP complained about my typo and said 
>something
>to the effect that the command "words" would give me a list of available
>commands. Sure enough it did. One entry said "power-off"... Hrrmmm... lets 
>see.
><type> power-off<end type> and #sound-of-drives-parking_and_silence#... it
>powered off. Damn good thing I had dropped to single user and synced first.
>
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