RE: Looking for Suggestion, Exiting Multiple Programs at Once

Mike, you can exit cleanly using escape messages (and monitoring for them!).
By sending an escape message to a program higher up the stack, all
intermediate programs are terminated.  The problem is cleanup; if you need
to do any special processing as the program exits, it's harder to do.  I
usually only use this technique for fatal errors; "top level" programs
register themselves with a handler routine, and if a fatal error occurs an
escape message is sent to the top level program.

Joe

From: Mike

I have just come into this new job and the screens I am working on, they
pass a parameter back and forth to see if someone hit F3 (the standard
exit
key) and if they did, all programs in the stack exit out. While this does
work, I am wondering if there is a better way. I am writting a new
application and would like to see if there is a better way to do this.