Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!mcsun!isgate!krafla!einari
From: einari@rhi.hi.is (Einar Indridason)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.programmer
Subject: Re: Avoiding ^C
Message-ID: <1824@krafla.rhi.hi.is>
Date: 3 Jul 90 17:56:22 GMT
References: <10688@spool.cs.wisc.edu> <577@dg.dg.com> <1990Jun30.203726.7480@sjsumcs.sjsu.edu> <1985@cod.NOSC.MIL>
Reply-To: einari@rhi.hi.is (Einar Indridason)
Organization: University of Iceland (RHI)
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In article <1985@cod.NOSC.MIL> bmarsh@cod.nosc.mil.UUCP (William C. Marsh) writes:
>To get around this problem, you should turn off BREAK within your program
>(But *please* restore it when you exit!).  If BREAK is off, you only have

Don't restore.  Save the previous status and put that status back.
(If you restore, you might turn break ON for someone that doesn't keep break
on as a default, thereby taking him by surprize)

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