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From: magyar@inside.caltech.edu (Igen Magyar Istvani)
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Subject: Re: Bug In Turbo Pascal v6.0 - crt unit/checkbreak
Message-ID: <1991May9.042604.4024@nntp-server.caltech.edu>
Date: 9 May 91 04:26:04 GMT
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In article <1991May9.032547.13756@cs.odu.edu> popkin@ceawlin.cs.odu.edu (Brian N. Popkin) writes:
>
>I noticed that the checkbreak function only works part of the time.
>
>ex)
>
>program poker(input,output);
>
>uses crt;
>
>var
>  CheckBreak : Boolean;
>
>begin
>
>  { extra code deleted }
>
>  CheckBreak := FALSE;
>end.
>
>in the previous program, when I hit control-break, it still breaks and
>doesn't disable the break key..
>
>any suggestions?

Hmm... from the above, it looks like you should set CheckBreak at the 
_beginning_ of your program, not the end.  (Or did you mean that the
extra code was deleted after you set CheckBreak?)  At least, I haven't
seemed to have any problems with the CheckBreak variable.


Ted Turocy
magyar@through.cs.caltech.edu
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