Terminating an external program

[Raamkanna Saranathan]

Hi guys, please help me. this is really important. i am using the
runtime.exec() command to execute an exe file -- say notepad.exe.
After certain lines of code, i want to terminate this program from
within my application. I have used pskill.exe to kill the service but
only works on WINNT and XP. i want one that can be used on all windows
platforms. The "Kill.exe" which comes with the Windows 98 resource kit
does not work. Any other method? (Native, Using External Programs or
any other means), please provide source code if possible.
Thanks
-Raam

[Phil...]

I have not tried it but MKS toolkit has a "kill" command
that runs on DOS and is supposed to be like the UNIX
command that might work for you. Usage is
kill -9 pid
where pid is the process id of the process you wish to kill
You can use the MKS toolkit "ps" command to get the pid.

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Hi guys, please help me. this is really important. i am using the
runtime.exec() command to execute an exe file -- say notepad.exe.
After certain lines of code, i want to terminate this program from
within my application. I have used pskill.exe to kill the service but
only works on WINNT and XP. i want one that can be used on all windows
platforms. The "Kill.exe" which comes with the Windows 98 resource kit
does not work. Any other method? (Native, Using External Programs or
any other means), please provide source code if possible.
Thanks
-Raam

[Raamkanna Saranathan]

THanks much.
In addition to that i found the below link very useful.
Works on 9x/ME/2k/XP :-)
http://mvf.neurophys.wisc.edu/ravi/software/killproc/
-Raam