On Sat 03 Mar, Dr Peter Young wrote: > > On 2 Mar 2007 Steve Fryatt <lists@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > > On 1 Mar, Gary Locock wrote in message > > <4ebcf8b5a5gary@xxxxxxxxxxxx>: > > > >> bearing in mind that on the Iyonix, unlike its predecessors, if you /do/ > >> get into supervisor mode (and it seems that doing it accidentally is > >> designed into the system!) you have to resort to a reset and a restart > >> to get the damn thing powered down properly. > > > > Can't you just do a *Poweroff at the prompt? > > I occasionally do a "Exit desktop" by mistake for "Shutdown", and when > I do this I never get a * prompt. It's been suggested that if I press > Enter repeatedly a prompt will appear, but this has never happened. It could be that not only is the * prompt off the top of the screen but is also off the left hand side! Try doing a CRTL SHIFT F12 twice and then type: help followed by return if it is off the top by more than 7 lines you may need to do this twice! Let us know what happens! Chris Evans -- CJE Micro's / 4D 'RISC OS Specialists' Telephone: 01903 523222 Fax: 01903 523679 chris@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx http://www.cjemicros.co.uk/ 78 Brighton Road, Worthing, West Sussex, BN11 2EN The most beautiful thing anyone can wear, is a smile! --- To alter your preferences or leave the group, visit //www.freelists.org/list/iyonix-support Other info via //www.freelists.org/webpage/iyonix-support