On 2/5/04 11:15 pm, "Paul Berkowitz" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> On 5/2/04 2:58 PM, "Barry Wainwright" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
>>> As yaw recall, there are UNIX 'kill' commands which do the same thing as a
>>> Force Quit without a dialog,
>>
>>
>> I wouldn�t advise that. Killing a process is not a clean shutdown. It just
>> stops. Dead. No matter what it is doing. This could mean that disk-write
>> buffers are not flushed, files are not written out before closing and your
>> database gets corrupted.
>
> True.
>>
>> If you issue a standard �quit� command, there may be an error message, but
>> IIRC it will disappear of it�s own accord when the connection finishes.
>
> Well, it's not an error message, it's a dialog asking
> if you're sure you want to quit. Maybe it times out eventually but I've
> never had the patience to wait it out. On the other hand, it doesn't come up
> often, so I haven't been able top test "waiting it out" in spite of 10 new
> attempts. (I can't get it to come up now.)
Ok, I know the one you mean. I checked - it doesn't time out.
However, I still don't recommend force quitting. Better to do this:
tell application "Microsoft Entourage"
repeat while connection in progress is true
delay 1
end repeat
quit
end tell
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Barry Wainwright
Microsoft MVP (see http://mvp.support.microsoft.com for details)
Seen the Entourage FAQ pages? - Check them out:
<http://www.entourage.mvps.org/toc.html>
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