[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> 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.
1) we are not talking /View on general ML imho ;-)
2) the combination was Alt+C, IIRC
3) You ever stopped any script by pressing "Enter"? What about ESCape (when you
are switched to console)?
-pekr-
>
>
> Russell [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> ----- Original Message -----
> 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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