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- From: Steve.Withers@bbs.actrix.gen.nz
- Subject: Re: DISABLING CTRL-C in BAT FILES...
- Organization: Actrix Information Exchange
- Date: Mon, 4 Jan 1993 23:56:29 GMT
- Message-ID: <1993Jan4.235629.6535@actrix.gen.nz>
- References: <C01pBA.I4J@ccu.umanitoba.ca> <1i9uq6INNgj5@usenet.INS.CWRU.Edu>
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- In article <1i9uq6INNgj5@usenet.INS.CWRU.Edu> dab6@po.CWRU.Edu (Douglas A. Bell) writes:
- >
- > In a previous article, ummalik@ccu.umanitoba.ca (Ijaz Rashid Malik) says:
- >
- > >
- > >Hi,
- > >Does anyone know of ANY way that would disable Ctrl-C &/or Ctrl-Break in
- > >a BAT file. I have to shell to dos from a database app. (Paradox) to run
- > >a BAT file and if user hits Ctrl-C during BAT file processing, every thing
- > >gets ruined. I have to catch it somehow...
- > >
- > >Thanks very much.
- >
- >
- > I have seen memory resident programs which disable the control key or
- > you can do something with piping the tty output to null, but I can't remember
- > how to do it and my dos 5 manual is being less than helpful.
- > --
-
- As this was in the OS/2 newsgroup too, I'll tell you that in the DOS SETTINGS
- of any DOS session under OS/2 there is a DOS_BREAK option you can set. Simply
- turn it off or on for a specific DOS session.
-
- Steve
-
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