REBOL/view 3 won't stop by pressing "enter" or any control combination I
tried. I had to use "control-alt-delete" in Win98 SE, which offers the
option of stopping REBOL. I seem to remember an early version of REBOL/core
having some key combination to stop runaway loops, but I don't remember what
it was.
Russell [EMAIL PROTECTED]
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From: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Sent: Sunday, May 07, 2000 10:26 AM
Subject: [REBOL] Endless looping processes. Re:
>
>
> [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
>
> > Dear rebol-list,
> >
> > I recently started using Rebol on my WebServer, and it works very
> > nice, I'm nearly done with a script that checks if domains are taken or
> > not at different whois servers.
> >
> > But anyway.. to the point.
> >
> > Yesterday I was writing some new things, and due to that I'm not
> > entirely into the Rebol language yet I make some typos and stuff.
> >
> > I wanted to find the last "." of a string, I cannot remember exactly
> > the code but i took it from the "Core users guide".
>
> find/last string "."
>
> > Yes, the point.. This function made a endless loop and printed lots of
> > lines with "." on,
>
> what function please? Could you post it's code, please?
>
> > this did not stop, and I pressed "Stop" in
> > Netscape.
>
> well, known thing - pressing Stop in Netscape very often doesn't mean
> Netscape will stop :-)))
>
> > Only later i found that for every endless loop I left a
> > Rebol.exe running on the server (NT) taking about 30% CPU time, and
> > the server was crawling.
> >
> > Windows NT will not let me kill these processes, and they did not seem
> > to stop.
> >
> > Is it possible to kill a rebol process?
>
> That's not question related to rebol, right? If you can't kill NT process,
> then how to stop infinite loop?
>
> > Or can I stop a script that is running from the console or something ?
>
> What console? Rebol one? Just press enter. If you are talking about NT
> console, then some NT folks will give you surely an answer ...
>
> > Thanks for the time, hoping for answer.
>
> You are welcome ...
>
> -pekr-
>
> > Regards, Fredrik Bergstrom
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