Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!husc6!linus!alliant!rosenkra From: rosenkra@Alliant.COM (Bill Rosenkranz) Newsgroups: comp.sys.atari.st Subject: Re: Ctrl-C Message-ID: <2239@alliant.Alliant.COM> Date: 16 Aug 88 20:52:35 GMT References: <7620@boring.cwi.nl> Reply-To: rosenkra@alliant.UUCP (Bill Rosenkranz) Organization: Alliant Computer Systems, Littleton, MA Lines: 17 In article <7620@boring.cwi.nl> steven@cwi.nl (or try mcvax!steven.uucp) writes: ->Gemdos only registers a ctrl-c when something is written to the ->screen, or read from the keyboard (and then only non-raw I/O). [ stuff deleted ] ->My question is: does anybody know of a simpler method? -> ->Steven Pemberton, CWI, Amsterdam; steven@cwi.nl you could modify the entry into any of the gemdos/bios/xbios traps (see osbind.o) to check for ^C. in this way, when any system call was made, a check is first performed. this is not really equivalent to signal(3) under unix, but is better than what's there now. MWC has a signal(3) function but i don't know how/if it works. alcyon's does not seem to work. -bill