Bruce after me: > > [;DELAY=<timespec>] > > [;WAIT > > Given these, I suggest > > ;CANCEL > > so that a pending :SHUTDOWN operation can be revoked if necessary. Well, actually I was assuming that the SUTDOWN command would simply "pause" during the DELAY time, so you could simply <BREAK> the command if you want to cancel it. The whole DELAY/WARN/WAIT thing is really just bells and whistles that are there because the Unix shutdown command provides the same kind of options. The same functionality could easily be provided as a CI command file on MPE, thus simplifying the implementation process for HP (I still want the ;EXIT option though dammit!), and in fact on Unix that's exactly how these options are provided, so for simplicity I would revise my proposal to include only the most critical options, making the syntax: SYNTAX SHUTDOWN {SYSTEM | <entityname>} [;HALT] [;RESTART] [;EXIT] and for extra credit: [;DUMP] [;NODUMP] to control whether MMSAVE gets invoked. These last two options would be mutually exclusive with the ;EXIT option. It would be nice to be able to have an additional option to ;EXIT which would cause an exit to the ISL> prompt followed by the invocation of the AUTOBOOT file, allowing a fast automated reboot without operator intervention. I haven't figured out if it's possible to pass an initial command to ISL on exit though, so this might not be easy/possible. G. * To join/leave the list, search archives, change list settings, * * etc., please visit http://raven.utc.edu/archives/hp3000-l.html *