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From: ewhac@well.UUCP (Leo 'Bols Ewhac' Schwab)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.tech
Subject: Re: Task KILL for Amiga
Message-ID: <10386@well.UUCP>
Date: 17 Jan 89 08:51:34 GMT
References: <89Jan14.134000est.2661@godzilla.eecg.toronto.edu>
Reply-To: ewhac@well.UUCP (Leo 'Bols Ewhac' Schwab)
Organization: Loudmouth Software, Inc.
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Quote: "I went to court for a parking ticket; I pleaded insanity."  -- S. Wright

[ David Letterman gets his material from these lines that you *don't* see. ]

> [A program goes into an infinite loop.  How do I kill it?]

	You reboot the machine.  A commercial program called GOMF might be
able kill your task and recover the resources, but in general, the Amiga OS
does not have the facilities to asynchronously kill a task.  Sorry.

	This has been a recording.					:-)

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