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From: siegman@sierra.Stanford.EDU (Anthony E. Siegman)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.programmer
Subject: Re: THINK PASCAL's Observe not working right?!
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Date: 12 Jan 90 21:48:35 GMT
References: <15719@eerie.acsu.Buffalo.EDU>
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In article <15719@eerie.acsu.Buffalo.EDU> volaski@acsu.buffalo.edu (maurice volaski) writes:
>Below is a program written in THINK Pascal that performs the 
>Macintosh's famous task of command-period to cancel. The programs 
>loops idly until command-period is pressed and then it quits.

(and then follows _36 lines_ of Pascal code) (which doesn't work)

Good God!  In MS QuickBASIC you say

    ON BREAK GOSUB BreakHandler: BREAK ON

and write your BreakHandler routine, and that's it!