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Re: Task KILL for Amiga

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From: Leo 'Bols Ewhac' Schwab
Date: Tue, 17 Jan 1989 08:51
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> [A program goes into an infinite loop.  How do I kill it?]

	You reboot the machine.  A commercial program called GOMF might be
able kill your task and recover the resources, but in general, the Amiga OS
does not have the facilities to asynchronously kill a task.  Sorry.

	This has been a recording.					:-)

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From: ewhac@well.UUCP (Leo 'Bols Ewhac' Schwab)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.tech
Subject: Re: Task KILL for Amiga
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Date: 17 Jan 89 08:51:34 GMT
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