ingemar@isy.liu.se (Ingemar Ragnemalm) (12/14/90)
On my MacSE and MacPlus, I use "CrashSaver INIT" to enable me to jump out of
programs that hang without rebooting. It is a sort of "CTRL-C" for the Mac
which I value very high. I like being able to force my computer to do what
I want it to do. Together with the "Pkey INIT", I have this "forced quit"
right under my fingertips.
You might object and say that if a program hangs, I should reboot. However,
that is often not the case. With a IIsi with PseudoFPU, I might run into
parts of a program that takes forever to execute without anything being wrong.
Then, I just want to force that application to quit. It is also very valuable
when I'm programmng, where I might make mistakes in "while"-loops so they run
forever and similar mistakes.
Now, it seems like the old "CrashSaver INIT" doesn't work on Mac II's.
It even seems like the old "interrupt, SM 0 A9F4, G 0"-trick doesn't work
either.
Is there any newer version or substitute that will do what I want?
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Ingemar Ragnemalm
Dept. of Electrical Engineering ...!uunet!mcvax!enea!rainier!ingemar
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University of Linkoping, Sweden ingemar@isy.liu.se