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From: alex@bilver.uucp (Alex Matulich)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.programmer
Subject: Re: Dumb windows from SAS/C programs on Workbench
Message-ID: <1991May21.160817.11000@bilver.uucp>
Date: 21 May 91 16:08:17 GMT
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jap@convex.cl.msu.edu (Joe Porkka) writes:
>alex@bilver.uucp (Alex Matulich) writes:
>>davewt@NCoast.ORG (David Wright) writes:
>>>	On a related note, what do you have to do to kill the CTRL-C trapping
>>>their startup code puts in by default.
>
>>This is what works for me, on every platform I've tried, including Amiga:
>
>>#include <signal.h>
>>void ctrlctrap(int);    /* prototype for ctrl-c trap handler */
>>main()
>>{
>>signal(SIGINT, ctrlctrap);  /* cause ctrl-c to execute ctrlctrap() */
>
>Even better simply
>  signal(SIGINT, SIGIGN); /* Ignore the signal completely */

Yes, I thought of posting that one too.  I didn't because when I tried
using SIGIGN in MSDOS, you would see ^C somewhere on the screen every time
you pressed ctrl-c or ctrl-break.  The solution I found was to just pass
the address of your ctrl-c trap handler instead.  Then it works silently.

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