From: Richard Dawe <rich AT phekda DOT freeserve DOT co DOT uk>
Newsgroups: comp.os.msdos.djgpp
Subject: Re: sys/ioctl.h turned off?
Date: Sun, 03 Aug 2003 23:22:35 +0100
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Hello.

Hans-Bernhard Broeker wrote:
> 
> Richard Dawe <rich AT phekda DOT freeserve DOT co DOT uk> wrote:
> 
> > * It crashes if you do Ctrl+P. I have no idea why.
> 
> Did you keep in mind that Ctrl-P is a special hotkey in DOS, to turn
> on hardcopy to printer of all following screen output that goes
> through DOS calls?  For a modern PC, this kills the program more often
> than not, because there's no printer attached to the parallel port.

I didn't know that - thanks. That would make sense, since I see the same thing
in bash.

I'm using Windows '98 SE. Presumably it's not just a DOS-only thing.

Thanks, bye, Rich =]

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