Kurt Kuzba wrote in a message to Dennis Brown:

 KK>    No character should return this value, however.
 KK>    An input error should allow you to quit the input loop.
 KK>    Try using Ctrl/c. That should do it.

Unless you also capture the corresponding signal, I suspect this is more
likely to terminate your whole program rather than just the input loop. Not
to mention it's ugly.

greetings,
Tom
tomtorfs{at}village.uunet.be

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