From: Myknees <Myknees AT aol DOT com>
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Date: Mon, 27 Apr 1998 23:07:21 EDT
To: broeker AT physik DOT rwth-aachen DOT de
Cc: djgpp AT delorie DOT com, eliz AT is DOT elta DOT co DOT il
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In a message dated 98-04-27 09:20:17 EDT, broeker AT physik DOT rwth-aachen DOT de
writes:

>  In article <1998042704050500 DOT AAA08108 AT ladder01 DOT news DOT aol DOT com> you wrote:
>  > As far as I know there is no way to get out of that question.  DOS
[snip]
>  Not exactly true. OTOH, the trick to get out of it is a bit hard to
>  guess, maybe: 
>  
>  	just press Control-P *again*, 
[snip]

Thank you and Eli Z. for the explanations.  I'm still not sure why DOS acts
like that, but it's nice to know that there's a reason it acts like that and
that there's something a body can do besides terminating DOS after hitting C-
p.

--Ed (Myknees)