Newbie question re path names

Timothy Miller gandalf at doctorTimothyMiller.com
Thu Jan 8 21:58:09 EST 2009


Oops! "Kill Process" does make the application quit.

Is this command safe on Mac OS? The documentation is somewhat  
ambiguous on this point.

Thanks again.


Tim


On Jan 8, 2009, at 6:40 PM, Timothy Miller wrote:

> Thanks everyone! It works now.
>
> Is it okay to use the "Open Process" command instead? (It seems to  
> work.)
>
> Can I also use a Rev command to quit an application?
>
> I messed around with closeProcess but couldn't get it to work.
>
>
> with:
>
> answer there is a process "/Applications/Firefox.app"
>
> I get "True"
>
> with:
>
>  close process "/Applications/Firefox.app"
>  answer the result
>
> I get an empty result, but Firefox doesn't quit. What am I doing  
> wrong?
>
>
>
> Thanks in advance,
>
> Tim




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