Subject: Re: savecore_flags="-z"
To: David Brownlee <abs@mono.org>
From: Hubert Feyrer <feyrer@rfhs8012.fh-regensburg.de>
List: tech-kern
Date: 11/11/1999 01:29:52
On Wed, 10 Nov 1999, David Brownlee wrote:
> 	If there are enough easily compressible pages it may even take
> 	less time :) Seriously - if I'm in a real hurry I hit ^C on
> 	savecore now - if I'm not in a hurry I don't mind if it takes
> 	twice as long. Its not ideal, but with the above I still think
> 	its the better overall.

You type ^C, but what if the user in front of the machine doesn't know
about it? he will just wonder what's wrong, maybe even press the reset
button. (I know what I'm talking about...). 


 - Hubert

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