Function:     ABORTTASK

Purpose:      Abort a task

Category:     SYSTEM, USER-INTERFACE 

File:         srvreq.c

Author:       J.P. Terlouw

Use:          INTEGER ABORTTASK( TASKNAME )     Input        character

              ABORTTASK   0 = Success
                         -1 = Error, i.e. task not known

              TASKNAME   name of the task to be aborted.

Description:  This function aborts a running task, given its taskname.
              Its main purpose is to allow be a task that has started another
              task with XEQCONT, to abort that other task. In this case the
              first task can obtain the taskname via a prefixed keyword
              provided by XEQCONT.

Related document:
              xeqcont.dc2

Updates:      Apr 15, 2011: original document