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From: apratt@atari.UUCP (Allan Pratt)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.atari.st
Subject: Re: <Control> C and autostarting GEM programs
Message-ID: <986@atari.UUCP>
Date: 22 Feb 88 19:08:19 GMT
References: <142@bdt.UUCP>
Organization: Atari Corp., Sunnyvale CA
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in article <142@bdt.UUCP>, david@bdt.UUCP (David Beckemeyer) says:
> 
> 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.

Sorry, of course that's right.  The bomb handler does a Pterm to try to
kill the offending process.  But why would you want to handle bombs any
differently from ^C? (Besides, correct programs don't produce bombs! :-)

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