Hi John, Are we talking on the command-line or from the GUI? The commands you listed for the Mac nd Linux are the ones used to xit programs on the command-line before they have completed. Regards, Alex, On 2010-11-26, at 11:09 AM, John J. Boyer wrote: > What happens of someone gets disgusted with the way things are going and > hits alt-f4 in Windows or control-c in Mac or Linux? Suppose a fatal > runtime error occurs? What exceptions will Java throw? Can I catch them > in the main method and attempt to clean things up before exiting? > > Thanks, > John > > -- > John J. Boyer; President, Chief Software Developer > Abilitiessoft, Inc. > http://www.abilitiessoft.com > Madison, Wisconsin USA > Developing software for people with disabilities > > Alex Jurgensen, VoiceOver Trainer, ASquared21@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx Visit us on the web at: www.vipbc.org