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- From: usdta004@mmm.serc.3m.com (Timothy S. Shea)
- Subject: Re: Two PMSHELLs running?
- Message-ID: <1992Aug21.002714.28696@mmm.serc.3m.com>
- Organization: 3M - St. Paul, MN 55144-1000 US
- References: <1992Aug20.171039.2596@colorado.edu>
- Date: Fri, 21 Aug 92 00:27:14 GMT
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- From article <1992Aug20.171039.2596@colorado.edu>, by doug@shako.Colorado.EDU (Doug McKnight):
- >
- > If I use "procs" it reports that PMSHELL is running twice. Is this normal?
- > I suspect not and that it is a result of an imperfect recovery from a disaster
- > that left me with two desktops.
- >
- > How can I tidy up? Killem does nothing on one of these processes and on the
- > other it just shuts down the wps which then restarts itself.
- >
- > Thanks, Douglas
-
- Here is how I understand it (I might very well be wrong):
-
- WPS (or PMShell) runs two processes. One to perform all the WPS
- functions and the other to make sure that the first one didn't bite the
- dust. For example - lets say Word just sat there ... CTRL-ESC does
- nothing and clicking does nothing - the second process would detech this
- and then ask you if you want to end this application or it would just
- restart the workplace shell (like if you are manipulating tons of
- objects at once and the WPS chokes on it - it would restart).
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