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From: ecphssrw@solaria.csun.edu (Stephen Walton)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.tech
Subject: Re: Manx Z and control-D
Message-ID: <417@solaria.csun.edu>
Date: 19 Dec 88 18:30:37 GMT
References: <1431@cpoint.UUCP> <3780@mtuxo.att.com>
Reply-To: ecphssrw@lucky.csun.edu (Stephen R. Walton)
Organization: California State University, Northridge
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In article <3780@mtuxo.att.com> tas@mtuxo.att.com (XMPC2-T.SKROBALA) writes:

>In article <1431@cpoint.UUCP>, steve@cpoint.UUCP (Stephen Steir) writes:
>> I frequently use <ctrl>-d to scroll in the Z editor.  The <ctrl>-d,
>> however, gets passed to Manx's Make which faithfully aborts after
>> compiling one file.
>... I never get the problem you're
>seeing.  Typing control-D merely causes the message "**BREAK - CLI"
>> The message I get from make is, "make: abort
>> due to ^D."  Other programs that trap <ctrl>-d also abort. 

Confusion here: Stephen Steir is using "my" make program; that is, the
one by "caret@fairlight.OZ" which I ported to the Amiga.  I added the
feature to use control-D to tell make to quit after whatever it is
doing at the moment, while control-C, as usual, aborts the compile or
whatever in progress.  However, since Stephen reports that other
programs behave the same way, it sounds like a bug in Z: it is
trapping but not clearing the control-D signal, so whatever runs next
sees this signal set and acts accordingly. 
   I will double-check my code and make sure I clear the control-D
signal on startup.  This will clear up the problem in make's case.
-- 
Stephen Walton, Dept. of Physics & Astronomy, Cal State Univ. Northridge
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