From: Thomas Demmer Newsgroups: comp.os.msdos.djgpp Subject: Re: SIGQUIT: What's it good for, anyway? Date: Wed, 14 Jan 1998 16:02:42 +0100 Organization: Lehrstuhl fuer Stroemungsmechanik Lines: 27 Message-Id: <34BCD392.1F088794@LSTM.Ruhr-UNI-Bochum.De> References: <69i9s5$9t2 AT freenet-news DOT carleton DOT ca> Nntp-Posting-Host: bvb.lstm.ruhr-uni-bochum.de Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit To: djgpp AT delorie DOT com Dj-Gateway: from newsgroup comp.os.msdos.djgpp Precedence: bulk Precedence: bulk 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 ************************************************************* * Thomas Demmer * * Lehrstuhl fuer Stroemungsmechanik * * Ruhr-Uni-Bochum * * Universitaetsstr. 150 * * D-44780 Bochum * * Tel: +49 234 700 6434 * * Fax: +49 234 709 4162 * * http://www.lstm.ruhr-uni-bochum.de/~demmer * *************************************************************