Path: utzoo!utgpu!water!watmath!clyde!cbosgd!ihnp4!ihlpg!tainter
From: tainter@ihlpg.ATT.COM (Tainter)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.atari.st
Subject: Re: <Control> C and autostarting GEM programs
Message-ID: <4803@ihlpg.ATT.COM>
Date: 11 Feb 88 23:13:26 GMT
References: <1988Feb3.080736.14303@mntgfx.mentor.com> <971@atari.UUCP>
Organization: AT&T Bell Laboratories - Naperville, Illinois
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In article <971@atari.UUCP>, apratt@atari.UUCP (Allan Pratt) writes:
> in article <1988Feb3.080736.14303@mntgfx.mentor.com>, 
> dclemans@mntgfx.mentor.com (Dave Clemans) says:
> > Re: Control C
> Not exactly.  First, GEMDOS calls the "terminate vector" not the
> "critical exception handler." Second, that vector points by default an
> RTS instruction.  It is the code after the call which terminates the
> process. 

> This vector gets called when you use Pterm(), too: it's not strictly a
> "control C" handler. 

This last bit makes it worthless, unless you can tell us how to tell if
we are getting a ^C or a Pterm().  Of course, ^C still isn't worth much
even so since it is not an interrupt but a polled event (polled by calls
to the gemdos cooked routines) but it would be worth something then.

> Opinions expressed above do not necessarily	-- Allan Pratt, Atari Corp.

--j.a.tainter