[comp.lang.rexx] ^C Filtering

akcs.psop@wcbcs (Paul Sop) (05/04/90)

I'm having a tough time getting my ARexx scripts to ignore ^C's.

The SIGNAL HALT method does no good because I just want to ignore these
halt requests.  Also SIGNAL HALT disables all do;end type control structures,
which is *BAD*.

It would be cool if anyone had a method to do what I'm asking.  It would
be cooler if it could still pass the ^C to a dos program launched through
an "ADDRESS COMMAND".  Certain shells sometimes seem to let me stop the
commands (like SEARCH) while running, but they usualy stop the AREXX
program as well.

Also, anybody know if William is going to reduce the memory requirements
of AREXX scripts?  I have a 5k script which uses over 120k when it starts
up.  I've gone to great lengths to figure ways of reducing this, and have
figured a method that does what I want, but I still think that a small
script should not use up so much RAM.

I doubt you can mail me at this node.  Nobody has been able to before at
any rate.  Thanks