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From: jvkelley@watcgl.waterloo.edu (Jeff Kelley)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga
Subject: Re: "kill"
Message-ID: <1673@watcgl.waterloo.edu>
Date: Sun, 30-Aug-87 01:40:11 EDT
Article-I.D.: watcgl.1673
Posted: Sun Aug 30 01:40:11 1987
Date-Received: Fri, 4-Sep-87 00:42:02 EDT
References: <1708@amiga.amiga.UUCP> <581@sugar.UUCP>
Reply-To: jvkelley@watcgl.waterloo.edu (Jeff Kelley)
Organization: U. of Waterloo, Ontario
Lines: 35
Keywords: memory loss
Summary: main(argc,argv) char *argv[]; {RemTask(FindTask(argv[1]));}

If you missed the summary, look again.  That's one way of killing a task,
the well known drawback being that resources owned by the task, other
than memory placed on its tc_MemEntry structure, will not be released.
(Does the AmigaDOS 'RUN' command place the process structure, its stack,
 and the loaded segments on this list?  Probably not, but it's pretty
 simple to do (I wrote a program called 'RunTask' which does this.))

Neat trick:  If you like a mouse cursor that behaves like an air-hockey
	     puck, follow these steps:

	     1) Find or write a program which opens a window and calls
		WindowToFront() every second.  Clock programs are likely
		choices.

	     2) Run several copies simultaneously.  Three worked for me.
		Wait for the system to lock-up.  (Shouldn't take more
		than a minute.)

	     3) After the system returns from its mysteriously locked state
		(lasting for 2-30 seconds), the mouse cursor should behave
		like an air hockey puck.  Quickly close the windows,
		before the next mysterious lock-up.

	     4) Lock-ups will no longer occur, but your mouse cursor will
		continue to behave in this interesting fashion.  Enjoy.


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