More debate on NT vs. UNIX?

[Fred Sutton]

My experience is that the kill process feature of UNIX is a God send when running Solid Designer. Has anyone running an NT box figured out a way to duplicate this capability?

[Markus Kuehl]

CoCreate delivers with SD on NT a tool with name 'sdkill'. Open a MSDOS shell and cd into the installation directory of SolidDesigner, e.g. c:Program FilesCoCreateSolidDesigner. Now you can type for example sdkill -8 to send a floating point exception to SolidDesigner. The numbers you can pass to sdkill are the same as under UNIX, i.e. -9 would terminate SolidDesigner.

[Claus Brod]

One additional note: In SD 4.55 and 5.0, the sdkill utility did not interpret the option "-<number>" correctly. In those versions, try<p> <tt>sdkill 8 processid</tt>

[Jerry Ussery]

The best way I've found to "kill -9" from NT 4.0 is to just press "CTRL-ALT-DEL" which will bring up the "Windows NT Security" window. Click on the "Task Manager" button which brings up the "Windows NT Task Manager" window. From there click on the "Applications" tab. Click on the program that you want to kill, then click on "End Task". Another dialog box usually pops up, just press "End Task" in the new dialog box and you're done!

[Kurt Botsai]

This is all well and good if I want to compleetly kill SolidDesigner. But what do I do if I want to to the equilvalent of a "kill -5" in UNIX?

[Claus Brod]

Kurt,<p> if you simply want to stop a lengthy calculation in SolidDesigner, you can either hit the BREAK key or, if this doesn't work, run<p> <kbd>sdkill 8 processid</kbd> <p> Note that NT does not support the concept of signals. SolidDesigner implements a limited signal emulation for use with <tt>sdkill</tt>, but only a few signal types are available, most notably SIGKILL (9) and SIGFPE (8).<p> Claus