Global Homes Webmaster wrote: >In my experience, force-quitting a Classic app (using command-option-esc) >also force-quits the Classic Environment, causing whatever collateral >damage that might entail to any other Classic apps that may also be running >at the time. I wouldn't think it would be a good strategy to use routinely >for stopping mis-behaving applications.
In my experience, when SIMS freezes, it actually does NOT cause the rest of the classic apps to break. So, let me do it my way and play it a little more safe, which is by force-quitting the troubled app, then shutting down the rest safely. As I said - should that fail, too, I'd force restart the entire thing. >> Now all I have to figure out is how to force-restart a Classic app. > >I don't think you can do that with individual Classic apps. Of course I can! E.g, I could install a interrupt-driven hook that would call ExitToShell at the right time. That's exactly how a app is force-quit under older Systems when you press Cmd-Alt-Esc. >On a broader note, running SIMS in Classic under OS X is not supported, >so it's really a kludge to begin with and I, for one, wouldn't feel >comfortable doing it for any sort of mission-critical installation. Well, if you don't like it you don't have to do it. I am not forcing to follow me, do I? I want this solved my way, and all I ask is for help on solving it, not for being told that you do not like my attempt, and I am old enough to make such decisions on my own, thank you. :) Unless, of course, you would have insights on why running SIMS and force-quitting it could be of further harm to humankind, in which case I'm willing to consider your concerns :) After all, I am using SIMS here on my OS X machine, and it works good enough for me to be happy with it. > Better >to either run SIMS on its own older, inexpensive OS 8/9 machine or, I did that before, and that gave me other problems which I could only solve by running it all on the same machine now. >if you need to run your mail server on an OS X box, use something >that's *nix/OS X native instead of SIMS. If there were a simple migration path that does not require me to spend many hours learning how to do it, and can do it without a trade-off, yes, I'd do it. Thomas ############################################################# This message is sent to you because you are subscribed to the mailing list <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>. To unsubscribe, E-mail to: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To switch to the DIGEST mode, E-mail to <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To switch to the INDEX mode, E-mail to <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Send administrative queries to <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
