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   From: address@is.invalid   
      
   Frank,   
      
   >  It would be nice to know what taskkill actually does, instead of   
   > us having to guess.   
      
   Indeed.  I have a situation where it interferes with the shutting down of a   
   program, and as I do not know where the wm_close is sent I had to guess.   
   In the end I wrote a small program which just sends that wm_close to the   
   programs dialog window.   
      
   >> >  Perhaps without /f, WordPad will do the desired thing and   
   >> > re-read the file.   
   >>   
   >> Whooo!  Yes, thats quite the long shot. :-)   
   >   
   > Well, it's not such a long shot, for the reasons I gave (and   
   > you snipped).   
      
   Does Windows support any of those, as I think I recognise, Linux signals ?   
      
   > If other operating systems can do it, there's   
   > no reason Windows can't do it.   
      
   True.   
      
   But as I read taskkills help and saw nothing indicating it would support   
   such signals to be send, the reloading effect of whats /supposed/ to be a   
   "close yourself please" request would be a rather wierd side-effect on   
   wordpads behalf.  Hence my "Whooo!" response.   
      
   But in that case, how would you tell taskkill to send a non-forced "close   
   yourself please" to wordpad ?   If available it would than be different than   
   whats used for every other program, and that makes little logical sense ...   
      
   >> But alas, when I tried that I didn't see that happen.   
   >   
   >  To be expected, but worth the try (you already did).   
      
   Trying stuff out, even just to see what happens (and learn from it!) is   
   never a bad idea - as long as its not on an important   
   'puter/program/database/etc. ofcourse. :-)   
      
   Regards,   
   Rudy Wieser   
      
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