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TaskKill 1.26 (11-Dec-1993)
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⌐ Paul Clifford of DoggySoft, 1993
You may distribute this program as you wish, as long as no profit is made,
and none of the files are altered in any way. I will take no blame whatsoever
for any late nights/lost files/destroyed computers/etc.. whilst you are using
this program - use it at your own risk.
Description
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TaskKill's main purpose is to provide a simple way of killing off tasks that
hang the machine. If you have ever slaved away on something for hours and
before you get around to saving it somewhere safe, some unsociable task has
decided to hang the machine, you will understand its usefulness. The second
feature of TaskKill is to provide a special hotkey that executes the command
*TaskKillAction when it is pressed. This may not sound very useful, but by
defining the system variable 'Alias$TaskKillAction' it can be made to perform
a large range of features. If, when the module is initialised, this variable
has not been defined, it is set up to save the current screen into the Scrap
directory as 'Screenx' (x being a number which is incremented after each
save).
If you have Risc OS 3, loading the module will make a new icon appear on the
iconbar, which can be used to turn the program on and off. Those of you who
still have Risc OS 2 (or those who don't like using the desktop) can control
the state using *TaskKill_Status, followed by either on or off. Omitting any
parameters will report the current state.
When turned on, the module supports the following key combinations:
ALT + keypad * : Executes the *TaskKillAction command.
ALT + keypad # : Generates a fatal error, which will quit most
applications that are hanging the machine.
ALT + ENTER : Drops into user mode, and executes the two SWIs,
'Wimp_CloseDown' and 'OS_Exit'.
There is little difference between using ALT + keypad # or ALT + ENTER,
except that the latter doesn't produce an error message. Remember, however,
that both combinations will work regardless of whether or not the machine has
hung up, and by pressing them at the wrong time you are likely to kill off
random applications.
Contacting me
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If you want to contact me for any reason I can be reached on Arcade BBS as
user #168, by email at clifford@arcade.demon.co.uk or by snailmail at:
Paul Clifford,
3 St. Anthony's Avenue,
Woodford Green,
Essex,
IG8 7EP.