WATCHCAT.EXE

WatchCat is a program to recover OS/2 from a hanging Presentation Manager by killing applications. It can also display all PStat info about modules, processes, threads etc.

Developed by Felix von Normann and Thomas Opheys. Watchcat is free for private use.

NOTE

As Watchcat hasn't been updated since 1995 I first suggest the use of SCKILLFEATUREENABLED=YES together with Warp 4. There is also the free Task Buster version 2.0 by Jostein Ullestad. Both can unfortunately only act with a working Presentation Manager, but as long you're not a developer who has to 'fight' with corrupt applications who are blocking the message queue these two should do in nearly every case, cause since Fixpak 17 for Warp 3 the "SIQ" feature allows the user to take focus away from an application that is monopolising the message queue.

TIP

by Rainer Feuerstein: Around Christmas the WatchCat Icon wears a Santa Cap.

NOTE

by Timur Kazimirov: In FP13 for Warp 4 there is a new program PSFILES that shows all opened files (with a lot of the info including mode, PID of process, handle, size, attributes, and etc).