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Subject:	Re: BREAK statement aint workin
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Eli Zaretskii wrote:
>>Date: Tue, 21 Aug 2001 18:08:33 -0400
>>From: Ramy Elmeligy <Ramiman12 AT MailAndNews DOT com>
>>
>>Here's a code snippet, taken from Ivor Horton's Beginning C++. It involves 
>>BREAKing a loop, after a certain number of invalid values are input. 
>>After i have compiled, when i try to run the program, i get a message saying 
>>BREAK is off and then it goes back to the DOS prompt. Whats the problem??
>>
> 
> It sounds like you are invoking the source instead of the compiled
> program.  What exactly did you do to run the program?
> 

I believe that DOS has a command called BREAK, so if you compiled your 
program to have the name BREAK.EXE, then the dos command gets invoked 
instead.  to remedy this either rename your program, or run it using the 
command line ".\break.exe" (sans quotes).  choi.

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