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.TH COLO\-PERM 8 "May 2005"

.SH NAME
colo\-perm \- check whether CoLo is resident in ROM

.SH SYNOPSIS
.B colo\-perm
[\fI\-q\fR]

.SH DESCRIPTION
.PP
.B colo\-perm
is a tool which looks in the ROM of a Cobalt machine for a magic string
identifying CoLo.  This way, it can be determined if the original Cobalt
firmware is used or whether CoLo has been flashed to the ROM.

.SH OPTIONS
.TP
\fB\-q\fR
Do not print a message on the screen saying whether CoLo has been found
to be resident in the ROM.

.SH RETURN VALUE

.B colo\-perm
returns zero if CoLo has been found in the ROM or 1 if it has not been
found.  255 is returned if an error occurred.

.SH AUTHOR
.PP
Peter Horton <pdh@colonel\-panic.org>