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From: dougs@videovax.tv.tek.com (Doug Stevens)
Newsgroups: comp.os.msdos.programmer
Subject: Re: Reading Ctrl-C in TC++
Summary: Difficult to supress ^C printout
Keywords: getch TC++ Borland break ctrl
Message-ID: <6343@videovax.tv.tek.com>
Date: 27 Mar 91 19:14:33 GMT
References: <1991Mar22.122417.7845@neon.Stanford.EDU> <valley.669652276@gsbsun>
Organization: Tektronix TV Measurement Systems, Beaverton OR
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One of the chronic problems I've had with trapping ^C is not handling the
^C itself, but trying to find a good way to supress the printout on screen 
of the ^C character.

BIOS somehow bypasses the usual streams and outputs this directly to stdout.
About the only way I've found to supress it is to re-direct stdout to NUL,
but then sdtout can't be used for other purposes.