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Re: Stopping a running program

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  • Subject: [mg94956] Re: Stopping a running program
  • From: Jens-Peer Kuska <kuska at informatik.uni-leipzig.de>
  • Date: Thu, 1 Jan 2009 07:25:04 -0500 (EST)
  • References: <gjacq1$ou9$1@smc.vnet.net> <gjcuhd$cm8$1@smc.vnet.net> <gjfjoe$d4r$1@smc.vnet.net>

Hi,

that is a bit rude, what is with killing the Kernel, the FrontEnd
and reboot the computer ;-)

Regards
   Jens

Helen Read wrote:
> Jens-Peer Kuska wrote:
>> Hi,
>>
>> a) your While[ 1==1, Print["Hi"]] cause the kernel to send a lot of
>>     data to the FrontEnd and the FrontEnd must format it again and
>>     again for every new cell. So the FrontEnd is busy and it is
>>     hard for it to send a Abort message to the Kernel.
>>     I would suggest to use Dynamic[] to show the progress in a variable, i.e.,
>>     mymessage = "Wait";
>>     Dynamic[mymessage]
>>
>>     i = 0;
>>     While[True,
>>       mymessage = If[EvenQ[i++], "Humpty", "Dumpty"];
>>      ]
>>
>> b) if you do so, Alt-"." as well as the menu entry
>>     Evaluation | Abort Evaluation work
>>
>> c) if not, you have to press Alt-. several times and
>>     hope the the FrontEnd will get it and that the buffer
>>     with all the Print[] messages is not too full
> 
> Sometimes if the FrontEnd will not respond to Alt-. or Abort Evaluation, 
>   you can shut down the kernel completely from Evaluation, Quit Kernel, 
> Local. Of course, that clears everything that you had in memory.
> 
> --
> Helen Read
> University of Vermont
> 


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