Re: Avoiding ^C

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From: Doug Stevens
Date: Mon, 02 Jul 1990 17:09

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Here is a partial solution from Ge van Geldorp (thanks to Pat McCarthy
and Clayton E. Cramer for summarizing this problem before):

> It turns out that the ^C echoed by DOS is written to stdout. Thus, if
> you don't need stdout, you can redirect it to nul from within your
> program (using dup2()), thereby sending the ^C to the bit-bucket.
> Hope this helps.
> 
> Ge van Geldorp
> ge@dutlru2.tudelft.nl
> ...!uunet!hp4nl!dutlru2.tudelft.nl!ge

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From: dougs@videovax.tv.tek.com (Doug Stevens)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.programmer
Subject: Re: Avoiding ^C
Summary: Supressing ^C
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Date: 2 Jul 90 17:09:43 GMT
Organization: Tektronix TV Measurement Systems, Beaverton OR
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