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From: alex@mks.UUCP (Alex White)
Newsgroups: net.micro.pc
Subject: Re: Mks Tools - kill, ps?
Message-ID: <167@mks.UUCP>
Date: Fri, 12-Sep-86 12:17:24 EDT
Article-I.D.: mks.167
Posted: Fri Sep 12 12:17:24 1986
Date-Received: Sat, 13-Sep-86 04:55:27 EDT
References: <1418@ncoast.UUCP>, <10800013@mcomp>
Organization: Mortice Kern Systems Inc., Waterloo, Ont.
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>> The last MKS Tools listing included ps and kill. What good is
>> ps and kill on an MS-DOS system? ...
>If you have any questions about the package, here is MKS' uucp mail address:

I can't find the message that this is replying to, however I can answer the
question.  Ps will show you all dos resident processes; e.g. if you have
fp or the keyboard buffer extenders or any of those things that sit around
forever in memory.  You can also invoke it say from within a programme to find
out how much memory that prog is using; it'll show you all the memory blocks
and free memory blocks.
Kill can then be used to kill a resident process -- but only if you know that
it hasn't left hooks in the system.  Kill can also be used to kill a stopped
job; with the new release (2.1) you can stop (^Z, :stop) vi and if you decide
not to use fg to bring it back you could kill it [mind you you'd be left with
the tmp files sitting around...]