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echo: os2prog
to: Mario Semo
from: Peter Fitzsimmons
date: 1996-04-25 00:44:40
subject: Keyboard thread

PF> do {
 PF> c = getch();
 PF> }while(c != 27);
 PF> DosPostEventSem(hevPleaseStop, ...);

 MS> ok, and now the main thread has done it working and 
 MS> want to get back main control over the keyboard. or 
 MS> just want to shutdown. 

 MS> how do you kill this thread? 

 MS> safe! (simple DosKillThread MAY lock warp GA!). 


A program that has more than one thread using the keyboard directly
deserves all the trouble it has coming to it.


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