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From: SYNFUL@DRYCAS.CLUB.CC.CMU.EDU (Marc Shannon)
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Subject: STOP/FORCE command available
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Date: Sat, 29-Nov-86 08:28:50 EST
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After having my jobs get hung several times (and losing several good games
of LARN :-) ) I realized that a general program to kill running programs
without killing the process might be useful...

With this in mind, I brought out my VMS Fortran manual and started
hacking away...

Now I have a STOP/FORCE command which operates like the STOP/ID
command (STOP/FORCE/ID=nnn or STOP/FORCE process-name) and in fact has
an additional qualifier /ERROR=nn which will cause the image to exit
with error nn (hex).

If anyone is interested in this code (a total of 5 files totalling
33 blocks) I will be happy to send it, preferably via Bitnet SEND/FILE
but I can also mail it.  Just let me know.

--Marc Shannon

  Local CMU Comp. Club hacker