Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!husc6!ddl
From: ddl@husc6.harvard.edu (Dan Lanciani)
Newsgroups: comp.os.os2
Subject: Re: Hooks for Task Manager
Message-ID: <1524@husc6.harvard.edu>
Date: 7 Feb 90 18:48:25 GMT
References: <480.25CC1F96@weyr.FIDONET.ORG>
Organization: Harvard University, Cambridge MA
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In article <480.25CC1F96@weyr.FIDONET.ORG>, Jim.Gilliland@p34.f200.n157.z1.FIDONET.ORG (Jim Gilliland) writes:
| 
|  CL> Here is the question:  "Has anyone out there written a Task Manager 
|  CL> similarto the one in OS/2 1.0, or has anyone had any ideas about doing 
|  CL> so?"
| 
| I know of no one who has tackled this, but I can see no reason that it  
| couldn't be done.  Before you re-invent the wheel, though, keep in mind that  
| the Task Manager from 1.0 was quite usable under 1.1.  I don't know of anyone  
| who has tried it under 1.2, but it may work there as well.  Good luck.

	It nearly works, but has trouble bringing down the system.
Typing CONTROL-ALT-DELETE or running the boot command usually switches
to another session or, if there are no other sessions, back to
the task manager.  It would be real nice if Microsoft would document
the DOSSM* calls.  Wasn't one of the selling points of OS/2
that there wouldn't be a lot of undocumented entry points and that
you could "even write your own task manager?"

				Dan Lanciani
				ddl@harvard.*