Path: utzoo!mnetor!uunet!husc6!mit-eddie!ll-xn!ames!lll-lcc!unisoft!gethen!bdt!david From: david@bdt.UUCP (David Beckemeyer) Newsgroups: comp.sys.atari.st Subject: Re: C and autostarting GEM programs Message-ID: <142@bdt.UUCP> Date: 19 Feb 88 00:40:27 GMT References: <4803@ihlpg.ATT.COM> <980@atari.UUCP> Reply-To: david@bdt.UUCP (David Beckemeyer) Organization: Beckemeyer Development Tools, Oakland, CA Lines: 14 In article <980@atari.UUCP> apratt@atari.UUCP (Allan Pratt) writes: >You're getting a Pterm if you call Pterm, and you're getting ^C if you >don't. If you know you're calling Pterm, then call your clean-up >routine on your own and un-install it before you terminate. > This isn't entirely true. An exception can also produce a Pterm. So an exception would look like a ^C, based on the above test. The only way around this is to install your own exception handlers, which isn't too clean either, if you ask me (but who did, right?). -- David Beckemeyer | "To understand ranch lingo all yuh Beckemeyer Development Tools | have to do is to know in advance what 478 Santa Clara Ave, Oakland, CA 94610 | the other feller means an' then pay UUCP: ...!ihnp4!hoptoad!bdt!david | no attention to what he says"