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Offline Monty0000Topic starter

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Stupid Amiga Workbench Questions
« on: June 05, 2009, 05:10:41 AM »
Well, I used to be a programmer on the Amiga and knew just about everything about it ..  In 1990.  Time flies.

So, I pulled my Amiga 3000 out of the closet.  It works, but I have forgotten just about everything.  I am hopeful someone can help answer some questions:

1. How do I kill a process on the Amiga?  Either from CLI or something that is running in front of me?

2. In the S directory is where the start up file is and I can edit that, but one of the processes I have (a pop-up right mouse click add-on) keeps open a process and the CLI window never closes.  I recall there was a way I could start that in the start up file that would keep it from hanging the CLI window.

That is all I have run into today - but, I sure would be thankful for the assistance.

Oh, and one last question -- does anyone have a link to just a general tips and tricks web site out there?  Or maybe you have a book recommendation?

Thank you so much, everyone!

--Monty
 

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Re: Stupid Amiga Workbench Questions
« Reply #1 on: June 17, 2009, 04:22:33 PM »
Hi, Matt!  Thank you so much!

On a worthless aside, the morning after I posted my message I had a seizure, found a tumor taking up a quarter of my brain, had it removed - and have been recovering ever since.  Lots of fun.  But, I apparently kept enough brain material around to know that I needed to check back on this message I left the night before.

I order the book - thanks for the tip, and the other info on the processes.  It all looks "familiar", but it is still simultaneously foreign.

I used to do computer bulletin board programming for the Amiga, and we actually had a number of web sites running software we wrote many years back.  It was a lot of fun, especially given the nature of the Amiga and writing software that really was on a completely different playing field than the "game machine" image that most people had of it.  I won't be doing too much bulletin board programming in the future, I don't think, but it is nice to play around on the platform again and re-learn how wonderful it is / was.

Thank you so much!

--Monty
 

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Re: Stupid Amiga Workbench Questions
« Reply #2 on: June 20, 2009, 07:49:03 PM »
Thank you, everyone!  Fantastic information!  Next week I should have a little extra time to kill and hope to give it all a shot.  The ">NILL:" advice worked perfectly, but I do want to explore the options for shutting down services that were all mentioned.  Great stuff!  Hopefully I will be back soon contributing and maybe (unfortunately) with more questions.  Thank you!!