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Re: DISABLING CTRL-C in BAT FILES...

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From: Steve.Withers
Date: Mon, 04 Jan 1993 23:56
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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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Subject: Re: DISABLING  CTRL-C  in BAT FILES...
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Date: Mon, 4 Jan 1993 23:56:29 GMT
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