Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Path: utzoo!mnetor!seismo!lll-crg!ames!ucbcad!ucbvax!DRYCAS.CLUB.CC.CMU.EDU!SYNFUL From: SYNFUL@DRYCAS.CLUB.CC.CMU.EDU (Marc Shannon) Newsgroups: mod.computers.vax Subject: STOP/FORCE command available Message-ID: <8611291514.AA01990@ucbvax.Berkeley.EDU> Date: Sat, 29-Nov-86 08:28:50 EST Article-I.D.: ucbvax.8611291514.AA01990 Posted: Sat Nov 29 08:28:50 1986 Date-Received: Sat, 29-Nov-86 20:56:53 EST Sender: daemon@ucbvax.BERKELEY.EDU Organization: The ARPA Internet Lines: 19 Approved: info-vax@sri-kl.arpa 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