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From: mende@topaz.RUTGERS.EDU (Mende)
Newsgroups: net.micro.amiga
Subject: Has Anyone written/seen programs like these?
Message-ID: <5231@topaz.RUTGERS.EDU>
Date: Thu, 26-Jun-86 14:00:37 EDT
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Posted: Thu Jun 26 14:00:37 1986
Date-Received: Fri, 27-Jun-86 21:39:04 EDT
Organization: Rutgers Univ., New Brunswick, N.J.
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  Earlier today I was talking with a friend of mine who has had his
Amiga for about 3 months and we came to the conclusion that there are
a lot of things that AmigaDos needs.  Since he does not have access to
the net I decided to post and see if anyone out there in netland has
written a program to do either of these two tasks.
  First and most importantly, has anyone written a program that will
kill a process *and* reclaim the memory that it was using.  I have
seen a ps type program and a program to set the priority level of a
process but I have not seen a program to kill one.  I was very
disapointed that there was not one on the 1.2Beta release.
  Second program is a little more difficult.  The program I am
thinking of is a Un*x-like alias command.  Right now I am running off
a three drive amiga and I can afford to copy some commands such as
Delete to Del or rm, but this is a horrible way to run a operation
system.  I know that the csh that came over the net (thanks Matt) has
a alias feature; but his program is a task running *over* the normal
CLI and thus recives the input from the keyboard.  The program I was
thinking of would set up an alias table in ram and have one task
running that takes the input and checks it on the alias table.  If it
was on the table it would pass the alias on to the normal task,
otherwish just let the typed command pass through to the normal task.
The program should accept new a alias at any time and show all set
aliases by typing alias.  The program should only have to be run once
because it can catch any mention of the word alias and preform upon
them.  An option on this would be to have alias run but have a second
program on disk that had all the additon and extended features in it 
to save memory when the alias process is running.


                      Bob Mende

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