On Sat, 17 Jun 1995, Chris G Demetriou wrote:

> > 	Is there a command for MacBSD that is similar to "powerdown" on
> > A/UX?  Something that acts like "shutdown" in System 7.
> > 
> > 	Right now I'm doing:
> > shutdown -h now
> > and then turning off the computer by hitting the button in the back.
> 
> Actually, i sort-of wonder if 'halt' should do that, on machines
> which support power-off (all of the macs that NetBSD runs on, i think,
> but maybe not quite all).
> 
> certainly, it shouldn't be very hard to write some code to power down,
> for at least some of the machines NetBSD mac68k supports.  i seem to
> recall a bug that did that...  8-)

Well, the "shutdown -h now" command has always worked for me (Mac IIci),
including turning off power to the system.  'Course, I gotta manually
turn off all the other peripherals (disks, modem, CD) by hand  :)

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