[Info-vax] F6 and ctrl-C

Joukj joukj at hrem.nano.tudelft.nl
Fri Jul 9 02:35:44 EDT 2021


Dave Froble wrote:
> 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 ?
> 
All languages should be able to do it by a call to sys$qiow




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