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From: schwager@m.cs.uiuc.edu
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga
Subject: Recognizing the break character?
Message-ID: <7200049@m.cs.uiuc.edu>
Date: 20 Jul 88 22:12:00 GMT
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Nf-From: m.cs.uiuc.edu!schwager    Jul 20 17:12:00 1988


I'm a Unix kind of guy, so I'm always disappointed during this scenario:
I'm on my Amiga, learning to program in C (my first project is an Amiga
version of the Unix expand(1) command), and I manage to program an
infinite loop, or use a pointer incorrectly, or something.  Anyway, the
machine hangs... it's still alive, but the program is spinning
endlessly.  So what I want to do is hit a control-C to stop it, ala
Unix.  I want to generate a chunk of code, a "generic control-C recognizer"
if you will, that I can include in all my code so that I can stop it if I
want.  I read in the Manx 3.4 manual about a function called Chk_Abort (this
is in libov68, page 4), but I wasn't able to find any hard facts about this
function.  It's not in Manx' index, it's not in the Amiga Reference
Manuals, nothin'.  Is this possible to do?  Somehow, my intellect says
no, but my heart wants to believe...
-Mike Schwager
-- {uunet,convex,pur-ee}!uiucdcs!schwager  
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   schwager@cs.uiuc.edu
	University of Illinois, Dept. of Computer Science

P.S. Send E-mail on this, please... I've been so busy at work, I've nary
a moment for reading comp.sys.amiga :-(