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From: arc@desire.wright.edu
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga
Subject: Re: xoper
Message-ID: <884.26abad15@desire.wright.edu>
Date: 24 Jul 90 07:06:13 GMT
References: <1894@ndmath.UUCP>
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In article <1894@ndmath.UUCP>, deh@ndmath.UUCP (David Hurtubise) writes:
> Is anyone out there using Xoper to kill processes?
> The instructions say that is able to, but whenever I
> enter the kill command it responds with "Cannot find
> processname process must be running ..."  I guess I
> don't have the syntax right.  Could someone please
> inform me of the proper syntax.  An example would be
> of the most use to me.
> 
>                                       Thank You,
> 
> 
> David Hurtubise
> Math Department 
> University of Notre Dame
> deh@sanger.chem.nd.edu

 I suspect you're using 2.2 of XOper?  If you are, you may be confused by the
task names.  One, the name of the process is case sensitive, then there is a
command called "clicmd" that changes CLI task's names.  You want the list that
doesn't have the enclosed brackets, like, [ clockdj ]...  If you are using ARP, 
the taskname will look like this:

  00c53d50 Process   Waiting     2  13.2%   3 ARP Background She

With this, you could do, "kill 3 ARP Background She", or the easiest way would
be to use the memory address of the task.  So, with the above task you would
do, "kill $00c53d50".  I use Snap off of the Fish, it's the best generic
cut/paste utility available on ANY computer to do little typing short-cuts,
which saves A LOT of time.  Oh, and BTW, killing tasks is not a safe thing to
do.  When you use XOper to kill a task, it doesn't exactly know how to exit the
task "cleanly", so you will almost always get a GURU trying to kill tasks.  If
you ever have a task that locks up on you (just the task, not the computer),
use the "freeze" command.  It works PERFECTLY, and I have NEVER had a crash
using it.


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