The self-test routines may be used to detect any unreadable sectors on the disk, so that they may be restored from back-up sources ( for example, from other disks in a RAID ).
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This article mainly deals with personal computers, but many other embedded systems such as those in major appliances, avionics, communications, or medical equipment also have self-test routines which are automatically invoked at power-on.
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The military's European Command is planning a major drill at Ramstein Air Base in Germany in early October to test routine operations, like sending an electronic computer message or making a secure telephone call to another base.
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In line with recent recommendations from the World Anti-Doping Agency ( WADA ), UEFA has also introduced testing for the recently discovered designer steroid tetrahydrogestrinone ( THG ) as part of its anti-doping test routine at matches.
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However, since this makes few assumptions about the system it can equally well be used to load diagnostic ( Maintenance Test Routine ) tapes which display an intelligible code on the front panel even in cases of gross CPU failure.
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The tests of short-and medium-range missiles were clearly developed with its longtime bitter rival India in mind, but a Pakistani government spokesman called the tests routine and said India had been notified in advance, in accordance with an agreement between South Asia's two nuclear powers.
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This allowed a user to write and test routines within GFA Basic, export them as functions to a Windows . DLL file, and then access those pre-compiled functions from within other tools or programs, such as Visual Basic 3.0, which was unable to produce compiled code.