Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!seismo!dimacs.rutgers.edu!rutgers!tut.cis.ohio-state.edu!snorkelwacker!bloom-beacon!eru!luth!sunic!dkuug!iesd!iesd.auc.dk!richard From: richard@iesd.auc.dk (Richard Flamsholt S0rensen) Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.programmer Subject: Re: DOS Batch Programming Message-ID: Date: 11 Jul 90 13:10:30 GMT References: <1990Jun24.043414.24256@caen.engin.umich.edu> <3868@optilink.UUCP> <268abc49-d6.10comp.sys.ibm.pc.programmer-1@vpnet.chi.il.us> Sender: news@iesd.auc.dk (UseNet News) Organization: Mathematics and Computer Science, University of Aalborg Lines: 19 In-reply-to: cak@vpnet.chi.il.us's message of 29 Jun 90 05:55:04 GMT In article <268abc49-d6.10comp.sys.ibm.pc.programmer-1@vpnet.chi.il.us> cak@vpnet.chi.il.us (Cindi Knox) writes: >the reason ^Break won't work when you > >y|del *.* > >is that break checking is normally done only on console calls: > [...] >put > >BREAK = ON > >in your config.sys [...] Nope - I *have* BREAK=ON in my config.sys and the piping *still* hangs the computer. -- /Richard Flamsholt richard@iesd.auc.dk