On Tue, 16 Jul 1996 Dan.McMahill@sciatl.com wrote:

> I have been simply using "halt".  This syncs disks and turns
> my IIci off.  Am I doing something even worse?  (Sorry for the
> simple question, but it seems that there are others as confused
> as I).

This might not be horribly awful, but it is better to give various things
a chance to stop gracefully.  Use `shutdown -h now' instead; same effect,
but isn't quite so fascist to your poor little processes.