X-Authentication-Warning: delorie.com: mail set sender to djgpp-bounces using -f
X-Recipient: djgpp AT delorie DOT com
Date: Tue, 17 Jan 2012 07:37:28 +0200
From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz AT gnu DOT org>
Subject: Re: DJGPP not respond to ctrl-s and ctrl-c
In-reply-to: <73d1b0b1-aee6-4c47-8304-5bfff57a0e50@m11g2000yqe.googlegroups.com>
X-012-Sender: halo1 AT inter DOT net DOT il
To: djgpp AT delorie DOT com
Message-id: <83ipka6g9z.fsf@gnu.org>
References: <0e995c2e-af63-4b2c-9e89-31ca359c5170 AT q7g2000pbg DOT googlegroups DOT com> <73d1b0b1-aee6-4c47-8304-5bfff57a0e50 AT m11g2000yqe DOT googlegroups DOT com>
Reply-To: djgpp AT delorie DOT com
Errors-To: nobody AT delorie DOT com
X-Mailing-List: djgpp AT delorie DOT com
X-Unsubscribes-To: listserv AT delorie DOT com
Precedence: bulk

> From: Rugxulo <rugxulo AT gmail DOT com>
> Date: Mon, 16 Jan 2012 16:10:20 -0800 (PST)
> 
> I'm not very experienced with signals, SIGINT etc., but what are you
> trying to do? Besides, WinNT-based OSes aren't exactly perfect for
> DJGPP, sadly, so I'm not surprised it's quirky.

True.

> > usually a check for break occurs during stdio.h output routines or
> > iostream cout or maybe cerr output I was told.
> 
> Were you expecting Ctrl-Break, perhaps? That should work anywhere at
> any time, more or less (right??). See DJGPP's port of GNU Emacs.

Yes, Ctrl-C and Ctrl-BREAK do work, although not as well as on plain
DOS.  Sometimes, they even wedge VDM or crash it.  When that happens,
I simply open a new cmd window and continue there.