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From: Bruce Evans <bde@zeta.org.au>
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>My fav Sun trick:  "L1-A, (putz with scsi bus), go"

>My not-so-fav BSD trick: "halt, (putz with scsi bus), hit space to reboot"

>Oh, how I wish for some way to just "pause" the OS sometimes.  :-)  It's
>sooooo handy and convenient to just add a tape drive by just plugging it in.

What's wrong with Ctrl-SysRq to enter ddb?

Bruce