On Sunday 03 February 2002 11:56 pm, Gavan Fantom wrote:
> On Sun, 3 Feb 2002, Chris Gilbert wrote:
> > > 2) Not so important this one. When you reboot RISC OS, RISC OS
> > >    moans that the machine was not shut down cleanly.
> >
> > Hmm, wonder how they do that?  Must be some flag in a file somewhere
> > that's set on shutdown.
>
> Or in the CMOS. There is actually a CMOS bit reserved for that, originally
> used for laptops dying due to power failures.

I did notice that the select website has beta copies of the Risc-OS 4 PRM's 
so they might indicate if it's actually a CMOS bit used or not.  Only problem 
is you've got to have a select subscription to access them.

Chris