Re: Not killing processes

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On Fri, 12 Jun 1998, Simon Drabble wrote:

>  I notice that it doesn't seem to shut down apps properly, most notably
> netscape. TWhen it shuts, it leaves netscape running as a zombie, taking
> up memory, burying my swap partition, and the remains of a .lock file
> lying around.

I have had regular problems of this nature with netscape.  Are you trying
to shut netscape down with the delete window/kill button?  That works for
me.  Closing AS before closing netscape, however, leaves the lock file,
&c.

I've never run into the problem with xiterm.

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