[Info-vax] F6 and ctrl-C

Dave Froble davef at tsoft-inc.com
Thu Jul 8 20:39:36 EDT 2021


On 7/8/2021 7:37 PM, Jan-Erik Söderholm wrote:
> Hi.
>
> Maybe a silly question...
>
> It seems as PF6 and PF10 are linked to Ctrl/C and Ctrl/Z.
> At least as it says in the OpenVMS User Manual:
>
> Ctrl/Z and F10 Signals the end of the file for data entered from the
> terminal.
>
> Ctrl/Y, Ctrl/C and F6 Interrupts command processing. You can disable
> Ctrl/Y with the command SET NOCONTROL=Y.

Basic allows ^C to be trapped and handled in a program.  Perhaps Cobol 
also has this capability.

As Steve sometimes mentions, terse questions beget terse answers.  Can 
you be more specific on how you're handling the terminal I/O ?

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