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From: tamboer@cs.vu.nl (Tamboer Erik)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc
Subject: Terminate batch job? problem
Message-ID: <5071@pinas.cs.vu.nl>
Date: 9 Jan 90 19:45:54 GMT
Organization: V.U. Informatica, Amsterdam, the Netherlands
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I have written a program in Turbo C 2.0 that frequently calls
other programs using spawnv().
Sometimes when I interrupt such a program (Ctrl-Break), I get
the message "Terminate batch job? (Y/N) ?".
I then type Y or N, both of which return me to my program.
This is a message from COMMAND.COM, but spawnv() doesn't invoke COMMAND.COM.
What is going on here? I didn't start a batch job. (For batch files
I use system()).

What makes it harder to localize the problem is that is doesn't always
occur. Sometimes everything works fine, and sometimes I get this message
with almost every program I interrupt (I often interrupt programs when
I have seen enough output).

Any help is appreciated. Please send e-mail to tamboer@cs.vu.nl
(maybe this path is incomplete, but it is all I know) or respond
in this newsgroup if you cannot reach me or if your response may
be of interest to other people.

BTW, I'm running MSDOS 3.3 on an XT clone.

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Erik Tamboer
Vrije Universiteit
Amsterdam
The Netherlands