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- TaskKill 1.26 (11-Dec-1993)
- ===========================
-
- © 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
- -----------
-
- 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
- -------------
-
- 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.
-