Path: utzoo!utgpu!water!watmath!clyde!rutgers!ames!ptsfa!res
From: res@ptsfa.UUCP (stockwell-1140galaxy-Bob Stockwell)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc
Subject: Re: Procomm 2.4.2 Question
Message-ID: <4122@ptsfa.UUCP>
Date: 12 Feb 88 18:25:46 GMT
References: <4114@ptsfa.UUCP> <6137@iuvax.UUCP>
Reply-To: res@ptsfa.UUCP (1140galaxy-Bob Stockwell)
Organization: Pacific * Bell, San Ramon, CA
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In article <6137@iuvax.UUCP> bobmon@iuvax.UUCP (Bob, Mon) writes:
>res@ptsfa.UUCP (stockwell-1140galaxy-Bob Stockwell) writes:
>>
>>Is there a way to terminate Procomm w/o hanging up?
>I don't think so, but you can start up a subshell and do (almost) anything
>you want within it.  (Alt-F4 key.)
>If you really want to dump Procomm, you could:
>	1) Use the widely-available Mark program, before starting Procomm.
>	2) Do your thing in Procomm, then fire up the subshell.
>	3) In the subshell, Release the mark.  This will presumably free all
>	   the occupied memory above the mark, including Procomm (and the
>	   subshell).

I use Alt-F4, but sometimes I need to
run a program larger than Procomm leaves for me.

I tried Mark/Release.
It hung my machine.
However, I was able to do a warm reboot, 
which did not hang up my modem.
So your suggestion worked, sort of???

Thanks,  Bob Stockwell
pacbell!ptsfa!res