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From: hrc@terra.dk (Henrik Raeder Clausen)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.tech
Subject: Re: Task KILL for Amiga
Keywords: kill task CLI
Message-ID: <1929@daimi.dk>
Date: 20 Jan 89 12:12:15 GMT
References: <89Jan14.134000est.2661@godzilla.eecg.toronto.edu> <3771@druwy.ATT.COM>
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In article <89Jan14.134000est.2661@godzilla.eecg.toronto.edu>, leblanc@eecg.toronto.edu (Marcel LeBlanc) writes:
> I'm looking for a program like the UNIX kill that will allow me to terminate
> a CLI spawned task.  I'm writing some simple C code with the Lattice

(part of reply from someone else. Sorry, I'm not quite used to the net yet)

>GOMF version 2 and later includes a program called "nuke" that usually
>does a reasonable job of killing a task.  Be aware that killing a task
>does not free up all the resources it was using (nuke cleans up what it
>can, but cannot get everything) so after a few nukes you need to reboot

An australian disk magasine Megadisk had a command like this in issue 6, called
AbortCommand. It does the job to the best possible, much like GOMF's nuke
command. It'll also kill tasks that have that well-known requester (select
cancel to reset/debug) up, turning the requester absolutely harmless, it does 
not even come to front on disk activity.
   Problem is, I have no written autorization to redistribute it. It does seem
to be PD, and is an unpaid contribution by the author. NO word whatever on the
disk itself regarding status of the contents.

   Also my brother has written a utility to remove dead windows, but a few 
problems remains: it sometimes takes the system down. I might post the source
for someone to trace the problem - it's quite a handy idea. BTW, to post
programs, do I post it to the group itself?

         Henrik Clausen,   hrc@daimi.dk