Path: csiph.com!xmission!news.snarked.org!news.linkpendium.com!news.linkpendium.com!panix!MIX!Blackbird From: billy@MIX.COM Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.system Subject: Re: What Did I Do in Terminal? Date: Sun, 4 Oct 2015 10:20:40 +0000 (UTC) Organization: PANIX Public Access Internet and UNIX, NYC Lines: 16 Message-ID: References: <011020150038031454%star@sky.net> <1mblz5t.1qhrupy1e2pls0N%mcarels@xs4all.nl> <011020152325496229%star@sky.net> NNTP-Posting-Host: panix5.panix.com X-Trace: reader2.panix.com 1443954040 3373 166.84.1.5 (4 Oct 2015 10:20:40 GMT) X-Complaints-To: abuse@panix.com NNTP-Posting-Date: Sun, 4 Oct 2015 10:20:40 +0000 (UTC) Xref: csiph.com comp.sys.mac.system:81447 FPP writes: > Better to look at a grey screen, with a big grey apple... and hope that > your machine is doing something, besides screwing with you :-) Yea. Now I know why Apple doesn't default to the verbose boot mode. It is sometimes useful, by the way, when a boot hangs. "Sometimes" coz the display can stop at the last successful process, not the one that failed. Billy Y.. -- sub #'9+1 ,r0 ; convert ascii byte add #9.+1 ,r0 ; to an integer bcc 20$ ; not a number