Closing a Program With BASIC/Batch

[zaid]

Hello Freaks,
I am eager to know how I can close a program using either BASIC or a batch file. I know it is possible to open with SHELL in BASIC, I'm basically searching contrary to that.Does any one how to do that?

thanks for any brilliant ideas ..!!

[SalVatore]

I used "exit" and "cls" as the last line of the file, but neither not going to work out.
Here is what my .bat file looks like:@echo off
"C:\Program Files\Sony Handheld\HOTSYNC.exe"
now i will try to do some thing like this
start "C:\Program Files\Sony Handheld\HOTSYNC.exe"
I know I don't even have to put this in a batch file,will make a shortcut that points to the above and it should work.thinks it should work

[Calvin K]

I will just do it by this method..using the rampage
Unmark the 4 options/boxes in rampage.now close rampage, or exit it.
Create a batch file, put it in the c:\Program Files\Rampage dir. Make a shortcut to the batch file and put it on your desktop, or somewhere easy to click it when you need to free some ram.The 200 is the amount of ram to free up (in MB's), edit to what ever you want to free.

The batch file.
Copy these lines into notepad, save it, then rename to ramfree.bat

rampageh M=200 O
cls
@exit

[Solomon]

It is not possible until a program is designed for it, there is no meaningful method of closing it. BASIC and batch files are essentially single threaded. Once begun it expects to come to an end at predefined points under control of the program. At best you can cease the program (Ctrl-Alt_Delete) but the point where the application is running is unaware fact.