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From: scotty@l5comp.UUCP (Scott Turner)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga
Subject: Re: What is clist.library?
Message-ID: <307@l5comp.UUCP>
Date: Mon, 27-Jul-87 06:08:20 EDT
Article-I.D.: l5comp.307
Posted: Mon Jul 27 06:08:20 1987
Date-Received: Wed, 29-Jul-87 04:13:07 EDT
References: <18102@cca.CCA.COM> <3616@well.UUCP>
Reply-To: scotty@l5comp.UUCP (Scott Turner)
Organization: L5 Computing, Edmonds, WA
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Summary: Is that dog or console.device/console.handler?

In article <3616@well.UUCP> ewhac@well.UUCP (Leo 'Bols Ewhac' Schwab) writes:
>	When you hit ^C (or ^D, ^E, or ^F), DOS generates a signal and sends
>it to your process.  This signal may be Wait()ed on, or plugged into an
Is that really being done by DOS or by the console.device?

And what if your program is running as a task rather than a process?

And don't forget that whomever is detecting the Ctrl-C, they do NOT remove it
from the input stream. So if you want to use Ctrl-C as a signal inside your
programs don't forget to deal with the Ctrl-C in the input stream in some
fashion.

Scott Turner
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