Speaking of Squeak as an NT service, does anyone know how to have Squeak
"save and exit" when stopping the service from the NT Service manager
rather than just being killed without saving?

> -----Original Message-----
> From: squeak-dev-bounces at lists.squeakfoundation.org 
> [mailto:squeak-dev-bounces at lists.squeakfoundation.org] On 
> Behalf Of Jack Keel
> Sent: Tuesday, September 13, 2005 4:05 PM
> To: squeak-dev at lists.squeakfoundation.org
> Subject: Re: Running Squeak as NT Service does not work in 
> newer Win32 VM's 
> 
> Torsten,
> 
> I had a similar problem with Squeak just hanging as a 
> -service on our Windows Server 2003 box using recent VMs. And 
> I too have been running the old Swiki's as a service without 
> problem for years.  I beat on it for a few hours and got it 
> to work.  I don't have a changeset but can recount what I did.
> 
> 1.  I needed to specify ImageFile in my Squeak.ini.
>      e.g.,  ImageFile="c:\JHK\winterlong\squeak.image"
> 2.  I ran the Squeak dos startup command without the -service 
> parm so that I could see the error (I tried it with and 
> without -headless and both worked, differently, but 
> sufficiently well).
> 3.  I was getting a message from CodeLauncher about no 
> content available 4.  I patched the code to test for ifNotNil
> 
> Here is a copy of my changes - sorry don't have a changeset 
> and I didn't have full source so I've got tx for variable 
> names.  But I now have my new Winterlong Swiki code running 
> as a service on Windows Server 2003.  I'm sure there is a 
> better fix for this but checking for nil was sufficient to 
> get my Swikis running.
> 
> 
> CodeLauncher>>installSourceFiles
> 	| t2 |
> 	sourceFiles
> 		ifNil: [^ self].
> 	sourceFiles
> 		do: [:t1 | t1
> 				ifNotNil: [t2 _ t1 contentStream.
> 					t2
> 						ifNotNil: [self 
> installSourceFile: t2]]].
> 	sourceFiles _ nil
> 
> 
> 
> Jack
> 
> 
>