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Developed by [[Felix von Normann]] and Thomas Opheys. Watchcat is free for private use.
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 Warp4. There is also the free Task Buster ver 2.0 by Jostein Ullestad available at http://www.powerutilities.no. Both can unfortunately only act with a working P(resentation)M(anager), 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.
;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 ver 2.0 by Jostein Ullestad. Both can unfortunately only act with a working P(resentation)M(anager), 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.
'''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).
 
'''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).
 
{| class="wikitable"
|+Platform Support:
!OS/2 2.x
!OS/2 3.0
!OS/2 4.0
!OS/2 4.5x
|-
|Yes
|Yes
|
|
|}


[[Category:RUN Statements]]
[[Category:RUN Statements]]

Revision as of 21:51, 27 February 2020

WatchCat 2.1 main program. WatchCat is a program to recover OS/2 from a hanged 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 ver 2.0 by Jostein Ullestad. Both can unfortunately only act with a working P(resentation)M(anager), 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).
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