Charles Angelich wrote the following to Charles Jennings, and I quote (in part):

 CA> When Alan Zisman mentioned the last line should be "EXIT" a
 CA> little light went off. I do think this not being in the batch
 CA> file is the most common reason for the problems the two of you
 CA> are having. 

Hi Charles,

   Yes, that will clear most of this problem types but this is a
stubborn beast.  It is evidently hard coded to not except anything
but the Ctrl-C.  The only way I have found that works it to do it
by hand or send it with the keyboard stuffer.

   Of course the best solution would be to discover the cause and
then prevent it from happening.  I have had no luck doing this but
again, I haven't spent a lot of time on it as it occurs in only one
of my batch files.  I normally don't worry too much about an
infrequent problem if I can automate a work around.

    Later, 
      Charles

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