On Saturday, 96/04/06, Mike Bilow wrote to All about "Timing out a
REXX program" as follows:

MB> If the program in question was an EXE rather than a REXX 
MB> script, then I could use something like DosKillProcess().  
MB> But this does not work because simply killing the REXX 
MB> script process has the effect of killing the parent batch, 
MB> too, since CMD itself is the process.

Hi Mike,

Check out the RexxSetHalt() API.

By placing a SIGNAL ON HALT statement in your REXX exec you should be
able to shut it down fairly gracefully when the interrupt occurs.

Regards

Dave


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