Re: [Oorexx-devel] Replacement for kill.exe in makeorx.bat.

[Lee P. <le...@sa...>]

OK,
I have a WMI script that will find any instances of an application and "kill" it - would that be of use?

Lee

Rick McGuire wrote:
> I think that only works if you have rxapi installed as a service.  I 
> tend not to do that because I'm constantly rebuilding it on this machine.
> 
> Rick
> 
> On 4/2/07, * Lee Peedin* <le...@sa... 
> <mailto:le...@sa...>> wrote:
> 
>     Could you just use "net stop rxapi" ?
> 
>     Lee
> 
>     Rick McGuire wrote:
>      > The makeorx.bat file in the Windows build tries to use a "kill"
>     utility
>      > that appears to recognize an executable name rather than a
>     process ID to
>      > kill the rxapi.exe process before building ooRexx.  Unfortunately, I
>      > have no idea where this utility came from originally.  Currently,
>     this
>      > is invoking the cygwin utility, and not accomplishing much. Digging
>      > around on my harddrive, I did find that IBM included a kill.exe
>     utility
>      > in the original ooRexx bundle, but I don't believe it exists anyplace
>      > other than my harddrive at the moment.  There's no source code
>      > associated with this, and looking inside the .exe file, I find a
>      > Microsoft Copyright statement, so this is not something we can just
>      > check into the build.  Is there some reasonable substitute with a
>      > reasonable licensing policy that can be used instead?  I'm getting a
>      > little tired of having to manually kill rxapi.exe using the task
>     manager.
>      >
>      > Rick
>      >
>      >
>      >
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