SYNFUL@DRYCAS.CLUB.CC.CMU.EDU (Marc Shannon) (11/29/86)
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