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- KillTask
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- This is a module designed to help people who program in the wimp environment
- - it was programmed out of sheer frustration: I run a multiline BBS system
- (ARCbbs, plug plug) which multitasks on the desktop. I also use the machine
- for programming my terminal software (ARCterm 7, plug plug).
- The problem is: usually when a C program crashes, it brings up an error
- box, eg address exception - which is fine. You click on OK and carry on.
- Unfortunately, if you forget a '++' somewhere in a loop you can find your
- wimp task running around inside itself without calling window poll at all,
- hence you can't shutdown the task, you have to reset the machine (not very
- beneficial to BBS users currently online!). So, with KillTask loaded, you
- just press Ctrl-Alt-Del for one second when the task has hung and hey
- presto! An error box. Really it should closedown, but when I called
- closedown it gave me an error box (sometimes) which is almost as good :-).
- Click on OK and you're free again. Wonderful, innit?
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