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From: austin@bucsf.bu.edu (Austin H. Ziegler, III)
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Subject: Re: One more 4DOS problem?
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Date: 8 Feb 90 18:44:25 GMT
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In-reply-to: meyer@suna5.cs.uiuc.edu's message of 8 Feb 90 17:39:59 GMT

>>>>> On 8 Feb 90 17:39:59 GMT, meyer@suna5.cs.uiuc.edu said:
[^C doesn't exit AUTOEXEC.BAT in 4DOS...]
meyer> This is not just a 4dos problem.  I also have had it happen in DOS -
meyer> what I think is happening is that whatever program is interrupted by
meyer> ^C clears the break when exiting.  I usually have to press ^C
meyer> several times in order to catch the batch file and not an executing
meyer> program.  (I'm using DOS 3.3)

	Check your CONFIG.SYS file for a line that says BREAK = OFF, and
that should tell you weather you can break *.BAT easily.  Because BREAK is
OFF, MS-DOS will not allow you to interrupt disk i/o operations, which is
primarily what a batch file is.

        This isn't guaranteed correct, it just seems right.
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