FORCE
                    A nicer way to stop a program

               Written by Marc Shannon (SYNFUL@DRYCAS)



     FORCE is a program which  allows  users  to  kill  off  executing
programs   without   killing  the  whole  process.   It  is  currently
distributed as an extension to the STOP command (STOP/FORCE)  but  can
easily be made into a separate command (FORCE).

     It is especially useful in long complicated batch jobs where  one
program  seems  to  be  looping,  but  there are others in the command
procedure...The owner of the batch job can STOP/FORCE/ID=nn it (with a
possible  /ERROR=nn for notation in the log file) so it would continue
with the rest of the commands.

     Also (and this is where I like it) sometimes EMACS seems to  lock
up  with no excuse after I've been editing for a LONG time...I can use
FORCE to kill off the EMACS by sending it a bogus  error  code  so  it
will force a checkpoint of all the files I was working on.