Jerome, Ok. Thanks for the research on frozen processes.
Believe it or not, I had tried to find the process with the Mac Utility named Activity Monitor which is just unix top, but I could not recognize the name of a jconsole process, so I gave up on that. Maybe I should have just looked for a different attribute. I am familiar with using "kill -9 processid", but I could not identify the processid. Having perused your google search links, I was reminded that "Force Quit" does annotate its list with "not responding" for frozen apps, so maybe it would list a frozen terminal window as "not responding" and that would simplify finding the errant process. I hope I remember next time this happens. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For information about J forums see http://www.jsoftware.com/forums.htm
