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In article <18004@shemp.CS.UCLA.EDU> korfhage@CS.UCLA.EDU (Willard Korfhage)
writes:
>There are a couple utilities that would be handy to have, but I haven't seen
>them. If they exist, pointers would be very welcome.
>[...]
>2) An fkey or something that will stop a program. The mac equivalent of
>   "kill -9" on unix. Two minutes ago, for example, I ran a program in which
>   I had accidentally disabled the Quit item in the file menu. In this case I
>   got out of the problem by hitting the interrupt switch and typing
>   "G FINDER", but is there a better way? Can the interrupt switch method
>   cause any problems?

That's a great trick! I didn't know that worked without all of MacsBug
loaded ('ES' command).

Since I didn't, I cooked up an FKEY that does the same thing. Go into ResEdit,
make an FKEY resource, and just put in the two bytes "A9F4" which is the trap
for ExitToShell. Works like a charm. Just don't hit it by accident, and be
aware that it's a little more difficult to write the file-closing FKEY that
you'll need to clean up afterwards.

Your method is actually stronger since the FKEY depends on the application
still being in (resonably) working order. The interrupt switch will almost
always work.

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