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From: meyer@suna5.cs.uiuc.edu
Newsgroups: comp.binaries.ibm.pc.d
Subject: Re: One more 4DOS problem?
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Date: 8 Feb 90 17:34:36 GMT
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Nf-From: suna5.cs.uiuc.edu!meyer    Feb  7 09:16:00 1990


>As a followup to my previous posting, it looks like 4DOS will not
>let you ^C out of AUTOEXEC.BAT. It works OK in most batch files,
>but when I have tried to get out of AUTOEXEC, the ^C appears on the
>screen, the current command is interrupted, but it just goes on to
>the next, rather than asking if I want to terminate batch job (y/n).

This is not just a 4dos problem.  I also have had it happen in DOS - what
I think is happening is that whatever program is interrupted by ^C clears
the break when exiting.  I usually have to press ^C several times in order
to catch the batch file and not an executing program.  (I'm using DOS 3.3)


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	Don Meyer
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