At 12:58 07/17/96, Colin Wood wrote:
>>         Does "halt" do the same as "shutdown -h now"?
>
>Almost.  According to the man page, shutdown is a bit nicer, since it
>gives users a chance to log off before the system goes down.  Then it
>calls halt() and the system will actually go down.
>
>So I suppose that if you are the only person on the system, using halt is
>not much different than using shutdown -h now

I have tried both halt and shutdown -h now, but neither actually shut off
my computer--I get the message that I may shut off the system now.

Performa 600 w/ NetBSD 1.2Beta running netbsd.noae.11.28 kernel generated
by John Wittkoski.