Path: utzoo!utgpu!watmath!clyde!att!osu-cis!killer!texbell!uhnix1!sugar!peter
From: peter@sugar.uu.net (Peter da Silva)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga
Subject: Re: ST PROGRAMMING
Message-ID: <3028@sugar.uu.net>
Date: 27 Nov 88 14:45:09 GMT
References: <3009@sugar.uu.net> <36@raider.MFEE.TN.US>
Organization: Sugar Land Unix - Houston, TX
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In article <36@raider.MFEE.TN.US>, dana.holt@raider.MFEE.TN.US seems to
	be talking to me...
>         This reply is directed toward the cooment you made about the Atari ST 
> inability to survive a ^C in any of the built-in input functions.

No, I said that there is no way of surviving ^C using the standard I/O
functions. That is, the UNIX-style file routines directed at the console
device.

> Well, this 
> message is to set that straight. I do assembly,Pascal,and 'C' on an ST and 
> there are built-in functions (in the OS) to allow for input which will ignore 
> the ^C keys.

Yes, but as soon as you call printf() you're a dead puppy.

> If you are stupid enough to write a trap handler to fix the ^C 
> problem I feel sorry for you. I can write a piece of assembler off the top of 
> my head to do that:

And if I wanted to write assembly language and busy-wait to do something as
simple as this I'd have stuck with an IBM-PC.

>                        ' Amiga? What the hell is an Amiga? '

Simply the only personal computer on the market with a modern operating system
as the standard user environment.
-- 
		    Peter da Silva  `-_-'  peter@sugar.uu.net
		     Have you hugged  U  your wolf today?

	          Disclaimer: My typos are my own damn busines#!rne