[DuoList] is it possible...

R.Friede rlf9 at earthlink.net
Sat Jan 1 08:04:07 PST 2005


On Jan 1, 2005, at 2:51 AM, 
duolist-request at listserver.themacintoshguy.com wrote:

> From: Samual Acorn <sam.acorn at gmail.com>
> Subject: [DuoList] is it possible...
> To: DuoList at listserver.themacintoshguy.com
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> ...to stop a 'stuck' application without resetting the whole machine?
> (there doesnt seem to be any 'killall' or 'task manager' functions in
> macos 7.5.3... that i can find anyway...)
>
> also... there is a very strange dialog that opens on apple+power thats
> like a command prompt but doesnt respond to anything... what is this?
> (i have to reset the machine to get rid of it)
>
> [many pardons if ive asked this before on this list... i have a very
> bad memory...]
>

There are "Force-Quit" and "Force-Restart" key combinations if I 
remember correctly.
They are Cmd-Opt-Escape and Cmd-Ctrl-Power, respectively. After 
force-quit, you should restart your machine. Force-quit is technically 
less severe than force-restart and should always be tried first.

Bob F



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