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echo: z3_pascal
to: Peter Watney
from: Jason Wright
date: 1996-06-30 08:05:44
subject: Re: Disable Ctrl-Break

Hello Peter!

,jn78ywPeter Watney{at}GKkjhsfy8&*^*Eric TamM In order to completely disable Ctrl-Break you have to change the copy
 PW> of Command.Com that your application happens to be using at the time.
 PW> The reason is that for a number of operations Pascal is using DOS, and
 PW> DOS has no way to disable Ctrl-Break (legally), so whenever your
'break=off' in config.sys?  Hmmm, or does that only stop some of the checking???....

 PW> Pascal application is loading, or is temporarily passing control to
 PW> DOS, even though you have SetCBreak set to false DOS will intercept
 PW> the key stroke and interpret it.
I can't exit any of my apps using ctrl+c\ctrl break.


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