Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!convex!killer!ames!pasteur!helios.ee.lbl.gov!nosc!gandalf.nosc.mil!dennis From: dennis@gandalf.nosc.mil (Dennis Cottel) Newsgroups: comp.sys.apollo Subject: Re: Keyboard Lock Message-ID: <789@nosc.NOSC.MIL> Date: 20 Sep 88 18:09:31 GMT References: <8809201338.AA09549@umix.cc.umich.edu> Sender: nobody@nosc.NOSC.MIL Reply-To: dennis@gandalf.nosc.mil.UUCP (Dennis Cottel) Organization: Naval Ocean Systems Center, San Diego Lines: 12 Scott Ferguson writes: > To prevent users from entering a quit fault, you should use the > pfm_$inhibit system call. The purpose of this call is to > ignore control 'q'. This call will let you catch a ^Q all right, but the second ^Q interrupts the program and can't be caught. That is why Apollo recommended to me (at least in March of 1986) the trick of using the smd_$quit_char call to change the quit character. Dennis Cottel Naval Ocean Systems Center, San Diego, CA 92152 (619) 553-1645 dennis@NOSC.MIL sdcsvax!noscvax!dennis