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Subject: Re: Autoexec.bat prob: take two
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Date: 11 Oct 90 14:09:59 GMT
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Reply-To: mdivax1!bb29c!mitchell (Bill Mitchell)
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In article <744@demott.COM> kdq@demott.COM (Kevin D. Quitt) writes:
>In article <3936.27135c52@cc.curtin.edu.au> Thomson_PW@cc.curtin.edu.au writes:
>>I saw once a programme which was called from the autoexec.bat file 
>>which loaded for a few seconds then finished and let the batch file
>>continue on. This was to give the user time enough to do a <ctrl> c
>>to stop the batch file.
>

I missed the original posting, but how about the following quick&dirty:

break on
echo type CTRL-BREAK now to abort
dir a: >nul