From:	Warren Gill <gill AT unison DOT com>
Subject:	Re: catching ctrl_c in djgpp
To:	dj AT ctron DOT com
Date:	Fri, 15 Jul 94 9:43:21 CDT
Cc:	djgpp AT sun DOT soe DOT clarkson DOT edu
Mailer:	Elm [revision: 70.85]

> 
> > djgpp (bless it's soul) lets me ignore the 64K/640K stuff I've had to
> > accept in DOS.  But it quits on ctrl_c.  A little surgery on the go32
> > source (control.c and exhndler.c) lets me go on after a control_c has been
> > hit, but I want to notify the stat package that the interrupt was hit.
> 
> Use _go32_was_ctrl_break_hit() in a polling loop in *your*
> application.  It doesn't check ^C, but it checks Ctrl-Break.  See
> samples/dpmi/ctrlbrk.c.
> 
    I have also successfully written a hardware interrupt handler that
  will let you intercept ANY key (except Ctrl-Alt-Delete).  The beauty
  of it is you don't need any keyboard recognition in your main loop,
  so it's very fast.

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