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From: Michael Searle <searle+lon@longacre.demon.co.uk>
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Subject: Re: Rumors of the death of Unix have been greatly exaggerated...
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Tim Vanderhoek <hoek@hwcn.org> wrote:

> On Fri, 29 Aug 1997, Peter Korsten wrote:

>> At one time, I was forced to switch off the system because I accidently
>> opened 1200 Explorers and the damn thing just wouldn't crash. :)

> Odd.  You couldn't just go 

> $ kill -9 `ps -c | grep 'explorer' | awk '{print $1}'`

> It always works for me!

Hmm. killall -9 explorer?

-- 
Michael Searle - csubl@csv.warwick.ac.uk