On 5/2/04 2:58 PM, "Barry Wainwright" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>> As yaw recall, there are UNIX 'kill' commands which do the same thing as a >> Force Quit without a dialog, > > > I wouldn�t advise that. Killing a process is not a clean shutdown. It just > stops. Dead. No matter what it is doing. This could mean that disk-write > buffers are not flushed, files are not written out before closing and your > database gets corrupted. True. > > If you issue a standard �quit� command, there may be an error message, but > IIRC it will disappear of it�s own accord when the connection finishes. Well, it's not an error message, it's a dialog asking if you're sure you want to quit. Maybe it times out eventually but I've never had the patience to wait it out. On the other hand, it doesn't come up often, so I haven't been able top test "waiting it out" in spite of 10 new attempts. (I can't get it to come up now.) -- Paul Berkowitz MVP Entourage Entourage FAQ Page: <http://www.entourage.mvps.org/toc.html> AppleScripts for Entourage: <http://macscripter.net/scriptbuilders/> PLEASE always state which version of Entourage you are using - 2001 or X. It's often impossible to answer your questions otherwise. -- To unsubscribe: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> archives: <http://www.mail-archive.com/entourage-talk%40lists.letterrip.com/> old-archive: <http://www.mail-archive.com/entourage-talk%40lists.boingo.com/>
