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I have a batch file that starts my digital applications. It does not start Thetis, because once Thetis is started it needs to be told to actually start working. I have another batch file that shuts down the digital applications. Is it safe to also kill Thetis, or does that really need to be shut down using its own menu system?

dmalcolm wrote:because once Thetis is started it needs to be told to actually start working.

Are you talking about Thetis needing to be told to start? If so that is not correct, use the -autostart command line argument.

Thanks Gary I didn't know that.
The question is really, can I just kill Thetis? Or is it better to do a more graceful shutdown?

You do not have to stop it before clicking the close box. It makes no difference. When you click the close box the software performs an orderly shutdown. You do not, however, want to kill the process. Stopped or not, killing the process does not release the connection to the hardware or write out the database properly.

As I suspected but didn't know. Thanks.