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From: dillon@CORY.BERKELEY.EDU (Matt Dillon)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga
Subject: Re: Recognizing the break character
Message-ID: <8808061951.AA03294@cory.Berkeley.EDU>
Date: 6 Aug 88 19:51:07 GMT
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>Is ^C accurately detected from CLI this way?  I frequently get
>"** File abandoned" when using AmigaDOS's c:Search command.  The
>system thinks ^C was hit when it has not been.  Oddly, ARP's new
>and improved Search command has the same problem.

	This is a bug in the CLI.  CLI forgets to CLEAR the SIGBREAKF_CTL_C
signal, and possibly the others (D, E, and F).  So if the application program
doesn't clear the signal on startup, you can get false breaks.

	I don't have the problem.... I use a shell.  I assume it will be
fixed in 1.3/1.4 ?

					-Matt