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Re: AXP VMS IDL problem with Control_C? [message #3748 is a reply to message #3560]

Fri, 24 February 1995 14:53

rivers
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Registered: March 1991

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In article <23FEB199510395357@sorbet.gsfc.nasa.gov>, landsman@sorbet.gsfc.nasa.gov (Wayne Landsman (301)-286-3625) writes:
>
> We are having problems with the Control_C interrupt in VMS IDL running under
> AXP OpenVMS 6.1. The first time one calls Control_C it works properly,
> as a keyboard interrupt returning one to the IDL prompt. But on subsequent
> calls, it behaves like Control_Y and aborts one to the $ prompt. This
> problem seems to occur under IDL V3.5, V3.6 and V3.6.1c, but didn't occur
> the old operating system V1.5 and doesn't occur on the Vaxes. The problem
> can be quite serious as the only way to abort an infinite or long IDL loop is
> to abort the session.
>
> Is anyone else familiar with this problem, and possibly found a solution?

We have reported this problem to RSI, and they have told us the bug will be
fixed in the next release. We do NOT have the problem with IDL 3.5 on
VAX/VMS 5.5-2, but we do have it on AXP/VMS 6.1 with IDL 3.6.1a.

Mark Rivers

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		AXP VMS IDL problem with Control_C? By: landsman on Thu, 23 February 1995 07:39
		Re: AXP VMS IDL problem with Control_C? By: rivers on Fri, 24 February 1995 14:53

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