From:	Thomas Demmer <demmer AT LSTM DOT Ruhr-UNI-Bochum DOT De>
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Subject:	Re: SIGQUIT: What's it good for, anyway?
Date:	Wed, 14 Jan 1998 16:02:42 +0100
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Paul Derbyshire wrote:
> 
> What is Yet Another Interrupt Key good for anyway? Already there are ^C
> and ^Break with SIGINT; now 2.02 proposes to add ^\ and SIGQUIT. A single
> key that generates a single signal would seem more efficient... wouldn't it?
Hard to say under DOS...
Usually my UNIX programs dump the current variables to a file
before stopping when they catch a SIGINT, write a temporary
result file when they get SIGHUP and keep on computing,
and such. Under DOS, the use coming to my mind is 
limited (might be handy a DOS box, though), but that may just be
a momentary lapse of fantasy.

-- 
Ciao
Tom

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