CTRL-Break or CTRL-C

[Haitham Yousef]

Have anyone noticed that CTRL-Break or CTRL-C does not work as it used to be with the earlier versions of the compiler.

If you have a program running and you want to force it to stop, the above key combinatioin does not work.

[Eric Pearson]

I'm not aware that Ctrl-C has ever interrupted a PowerBASIC program -- even in PB/DOS -- and in PB/CC the Ctrl-Break behavior is controlled with this metastatement:

#BREAK ON|OFF

-- Eric

[Haitham Yousef]

Thanks Eric, #BREAK ON worked perfectly.

I think I used to press CTRL-C and CTRL-Break franticly to try to stop the program and when it stopped ^Cs were displayed at the command prompt which explains what you mentioned above that CTRL-C does nor work.

Thanks again.

[Roger Garstang]

I'm not aware that Ctrl-C has ever interrupted a PowerBASIC program -- even in PB/DOS -- and in PB/CC the Ctrl-Break behavior is controlled with this metastatement:

#BREAK ON|OFF

-- Eric

PB/DOS has a linker option to enable/disable Break. I always disabled it and even blocked the 3 finger salute...

[Eros Olmi]

See SetConsoleCtrlHandler API