[DuoList] is it possible...

[Joseph Getchel]

On 1/1/05 1:51 AM, sam.acorn at gmail.com apparently said:

>...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...]
>
>
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Sam,
The first answer is apple+option+<esc>. This should bring up a dialog box 
warning you that the application will be "force quit", and that you 
should close other apps and reboot
Also, depending on the "stuck-ness" of the application, you may be able 
to use apple+Q to quit the application a little more cleanly.

The other "strange dialog" is the built-in debug routine (the closest 
thing to a command-line in MAC-OS). When you accidentally access this, 
just type "G", and the box will close and you will be returned to 
whatever you were doing. For a detailed explanation of the Programmer or 
Debug box, see the following article in the Apple Knowledge Base: 
<http://docs.info.apple.com/article.html?artnum=30556>

Regards,
Joe G.