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Date: Tue, 1 Jan 2002 08:44:04 +0200 (IST)
From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz AT is DOT elta DOT co DOT il>
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On Tue, 1 Jan 2002, Martin Str|mberg wrote:

> I can easily make bash (version 2.04.7(1)-release
> (i386-pc-msdosdjgpp)) quit unexpectedly. I type
> "history|grep asasasas" and immediately throw myself on C-c after
> Enter.
> 
> This is done in WINDOZE 4.1 (i.e. 98) and as soon as I've done that
> WINDOZE displays a WINDOZE box saying "Finished - BASH
> <!>  This MS-DOS program has terminated. Click the Close button..."

Probably some window of opportunity where C-c isn't caught and ignored.

I'm not even sure this is something Bash could reasonably fix: C-c is 
handled specially by both DOS and COMMAND.COM, so they might do something 
out of Bash's control.

Just don't do that...