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From: maner@bgsuvax.UUCP (Walter Maner)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc
Subject: TSR to Abort Infinite Loops
Message-ID: <1874@bgsuvax.UUCP>
Date: 11 Apr 88 14:54:39 GMT
Organization: Bowling Green State University B.G., Oh.
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I'm dreaming of a TSR which would automatically abort some kinds of infinte
loops.  Like a screen blanker, it would watch to see if and when characters
were written to the screen.  If no character was written to the screen for
X minutes, then it would send character Y (e.g., ^C) to the executing
program.  This would allow batch jobs to continue running and has other
useful applications.  Does anybody know if a utility like this exists?


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