I copied your example and pasted and executed it. Using WINTOP I see a
running TEST.EXE for each execution.

I believe that confirms your hypothesis.

Bill Cook
Kent WA

----- Original Message -----
From: "John McKeon" <jmck711_at_bellsouth.net>
To: <sftalk_at_forth.com>
Cc: <rvn_at_forth.com>
Sent: Thursday, July 05, 2001 7:48 PM
Subject: [sftalk] BYE

>
> Hello all,
>
> There appears to be a problem with BYE not completely unloading the
program that calls it.
>
> I've been using this little stub program I wrote which calls my editor
from the SwiftForth
> console to open a file, It gets called frequently and I thought it was
working great,. Then the
> other day I had to use Ctrl-Alt-Del to shut something down and in the task
list I see about five
> copies of it "running". So I searched the archives regarding bye and ran
the example.
>
> : test 0 z" hello world" z" test" MB_OK MessageBox drop bye ;
>
> ' test 'main !
> program test.exe
>
> I run test and sure enough it is in the task list after closing it.
> I'm using Win98 with v2.00.3 Can anyone else confirm?
>
> Any help is appreciated
>
> John McKeon
>
>
>
>
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