>> If this is the case, then perhaps there is no need for >> Dirk's stuff anymore (other than to support those using the command line >> versions)?
Robert wrote: >Perhaps, though there hasn't been many people upset by continuing to include them, to provide >another usage option, and also for servers, etc that have scriptc calling the tools. It would >save about 300K or so from the install. I had a thought that there might still be people who would want to run this stuff from a batch file or something upon Windows startup each day, or the Windows cron equivalent, so it's probably still useful. >Could well be. You are welcome to look through os_msw.cpp to see how things are done at the >moment and the older revisions in CVS that had other functions for other approaches--if there >is better ways to do things, they are most certainly appreciated. I ended up spending about 7 >full days researching and working on different approaches that wouldn't fail for various >reasons (for example: <some function> isn't in one of the Windows kernels) and probably won't >spend much more time on working around that poor API. The current end result is that 95/98 uses >the ::TerminateProcess() API with its built-in shortcomings and NT/2000/XP uses a hack to go >inside a process and kill it from within (it is pretty well commented). If I had the free time and it was causing you a problem I'd be happy to look into it. I'll send along the conduit stuff in a few days. I just need to do the progress dialog. Do you have a Windows machine to test it on? Thanks Bill _______________________________________________ plucker-dev mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://lists.rubberchicken.org/mailman/listinfo/plucker-dev
