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In article <12463@tut.cis.ohio-state.edu>, weaver@tut.cis.ohio-state.edu (Andrew Weaver) writes:
 
> 	Here is a question I don't think I have ever heard hashed around
> on here before.  Is there a way to intercept the 'bombs' that come onto
> the screen with some sort of dialog like on the Mac:  "Sorry,
> a system error has occureed [Restart|Resume]" or on the Amiga: "System
> Error:  Guru Meditiation xxx:xxxxxxx [Continue]" so that one can better
> diagnose problems with one's own (or someone else's) program?  It seems
> to me that having a number of non-descript cherry bombs (or mushroom clouds,
> which I am told appeared on earlier STs) is not a very good way of represent-
> ing an error, but I guess that's just me.
 
 
> Andrew Weaver 			          weaver@tut.cis.ohio-state.edu


	As a matter of fact, it is possible to "trap" the exception vectors
to run your own routines.  Compute!'s book on C Programming on the ST has
a program that does just this, called Bombsite (or something like that).
I have no permission to post the program here, and it's written in a format
that would be rather unwieldy to post, but I suggest you check out this
book;  it's quite good.


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