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From: peterk@cbmger.UUCP (Peter Kittel GERMANY)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.hardware
Subject: Re: Kill and Getting Killed, heh.
Message-ID: <1228@cbmger.UUCP>
Date: 16 May 91 13:27:19 GMT
References: <378.2830d367@beach.gal.utexas.edu>
Reply-To: peterk@cbmger.UUCP (Peter Kittel GERMANY)
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In article <378.2830d367@beach.gal.utexas.edu> mrimages@beach.gal.utexas.edu writes:
>From: R.Luebbert, University of Texas Medical Branch at Galveston
>
>1) Never heard a reply to the earlier question about a kill command for
>AmigaDOS.  Is this ever going to be developed?  It sure would save my ctrl-A-A
>keys from wear and tear after dead programs start piling up.

Oh huh, this one again. (You know, we have such discussions at least
every four weeks.)
Now, there is no kill command *possible* in AmigaDOS, because we have
no resource tracking, mainly for performance and compatibility reasons.
So the OS doesn't know what memory or file locks are occupied by this
task and thus can't free them (e.g. screens/windows, etc.). To say it
clearly: Yes you can stop a program (there are PD tools like Xoper
available), but you can't free all resources. So this is of not much use.
(Please *not again* this resource tracking discussion, noooo!!)

>2) Is there a way to safely (or reasonably safely) change the contents of
>screens/windows opened by other processes?  Using public screens would be
>lovely, unfortunately the screens I want to write to are created by programs
>that do not use public screens, like my term program.

Why on earth do you want to stomp someone other's screen? This is
normally considered a no-no. But you mentioned public screens: Yes,
these are part of the news in OS 2.0 and are intended exactly to
allow this.

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