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Date:      Tue, 27 May 1997 14:18:44 +0300
From:      Nadav Eiron <nadav@barcode.co.il>
To:        Zahemszky Gabor <zgabor@CoDe.hu>
Cc:        FreeBSD questions <freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG>, rewt@i-Plus.net
Subject:   Re: Windows 383spart.par as SWAP slice? -Reply
Message-ID:  <338AC314.235B@barcode.co.il>
References:  <199705270832.KAA00340@CoDe.hu>

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Zahemszky Gabor wrote:
> 
> Reply to : How to use the M$ swap-file under FreeBSD?
> 
> > When you shut down freebsd, you'll need to restore the drive for dos
> > to use:
> > turn swap off
> > copy the dos partition table back to the drive
> > copy the dos partition image file back to the slice
> 
> Well, I've 2.1.5, and not 2.2.x, but my questions:
> a) can we swap off? (It's not in 2.1.x)

No, and probably will not for some time. See man swapon (the BUGS
section...)

> b) How can we run some software at shutdown-time?  As I know, SYSV-type
> Unices can do it, but we cannot do that with 2.1.x.
> 
> Maybe these are new features of 2.2.x?
> 
> Gabor
> --
> #!/bin/ksh
> Z='21N16I25C25E30, 40M30E33E25T15U!' ;IFS=' ABCDEFGHIJKLMNOPQRSTUVWXYZ ';set $Z;for i { [[ $i = ? ]]&&print $i&&break;[[ $i = ??? ]]&&j=$i&&i=${i%?};typeset -i40 i=8#$i;print -n ${i#???};[[ "$j" = ??? ]]&&print -n "${j#??} "&&j=;typeset +i i;};IFS=' 0123456789 ';set $Z;X=;for i { [[ $i = , ]]&&i=2;[[ $i = ?? ]]||typeset -l i;X="$X $i";typeset +l i;};print "$X"
Nadav



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