Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Path: utzoo!mnetor!uunet!seismo!ut-sally!utah-cs!utah-gr!stride!l5comp!scotty 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 Lines: 17 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 -- UUCP-stick: stride!l5comp!scotty | If you want to injure my goldfish just make UUCP-auto: scotty@l5comp.UUCP | sure I don't run up a vet bill. GEnie: JST | "The bombs drop in 5 minutes" R. Reagan "Pirated software? Just say *NO*!" S. Turner