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From: nkraft@crash.cts.com (Norman Kraft)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.pascal
Subject: Re: Bug In Turbo Pascal v6.0 - crt unit/checkbreak
Message-ID: <1991May10.001152.11301@crash.cts.com>
Date: 10 May 91 00:11:52 GMT
References: <1991May9.032547.13756@cs.odu.edu> <1991May9.042604.4024@nntp-server.caltech.edu>
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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.
>
>program poker(input,output);
>
>uses crt;
>
>var
>  CheckBreak : Boolean;
>
>begin
>  { ... }
>  CheckBreak := FALSE;
>end.
>
>in the previous program, when I hit control-break, it still breaks and
>doesn't disable the break key..
>
>any suggestions?

Well, if you coded it a above, it's not likely to work. CheckBreak is a
variable declared within CRT. By redeclaring it above, you override
the CRT reference, and make "CheckBreak := FALSE" a statement which
cannot have the desired effect. Either remove the CheckBreak variable
declaration, or (if for some reason you need a variable by that name)
change the above line of code to

	CRT.CheckBreak := False;

Norm.

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