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.

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