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- From: lmp8913@zeus.tamu.edu (PRESTON, LISA M)
- Newsgroups: comp.os.os2.apps
- Subject: Re: MathCad anyone?
- Date: 26 Jan 1993 18:24 CST
- Organization: Texas A&M University, Academic Computing Services
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- In article <21836@ucdavis.ucdavis.edu>, ez003045@hamlet.ucdavis.edu (James E. Lee) writes...
- ->Well, speaking of zombies, I noticed that on PStat PM as well, when the
- ->other night, I was trying to run Telemate 3.0, and it hung because OS/2
- ->thought something still had the comm port (I had been using PM Comm, but
- ->it was _closed_). While I could do other stuff, killem didn't work to
- ->bring it down, and PSPM2 couldn't touch it either... I was mad, and
- ->decided to just shut down, as similar things have happened, but shutting
- ->down seemed to work, but this time, my system would not shut down so I had
- ->to reboot...
- ->
- ->Anyone know of any more powerful process killer than killem, kill, or PSPM2?
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- I had the same problem with cshow toggling the video settings fixed
- cshow, but I still had 2 dead 'uns that wouldn't go away! I was able to
- shutdown using the command line shutdown utillity from Hobbes(I don't know
- which directory-probably 2.0/sysutils).
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- LISA
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