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echo: os2prog
to: Andrew Clegg
from: Peter Fitzsimmons
date: 1995-03-21 08:06:34
subject: Silly questions?

AC> can't. I think the only one which has done it more 
 AC> than once is SLIP.EXE. I have many process killers, 
 AC> all of which presumably use DosKillProcess(), and they 
 AC> all just do nothing except Mole which reports "Invalid

If a process is catching the kill signal,  there's nothing you can do to kill it.


 AC> 2. Self explanatory... Someone in here recently said 
 AC> that a HLT instruction in a DOS prorgam could cause 
 AC> problems because of it being the method used for a DOS 
 AC> program to access OS/2 services. Are these services 
 AC> documented anywhere, and if so, where?

Raplh Brown's "interrupt list" tells of many os/2 services
available via int 2f (some of which end up in the HLT;  but there is no
need for you to know this).


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