Abort calculation by Ctrl-C closes Octave

Michael Goffioul michael.goffioul at gmail.com
Thu Jun 5 02:39:37 CDT 2008


On Tue, Jun 3, 2008 at 9:45 PM, Penfold <skianagh at googlemail.com> wrote:
>
>
> When using Octave 3.0.1 on Vista, pressing Ctrl-C to abort a lengthy
> calculation closes Octave. I'm sure pre-3.0.0 versions didn't do this, also
> Ctrl-C works fine on 3.0.0 under Gnu/Linux.
>
> How do I abort a lengthy calculation without closing Octave?

Ctrl-C handling does not work well under Windows, because of the
way this is handled on such platform (and also probably because
nobody really understands the related code in octave sources).
There's no real solution for the time being. The fact that Ctrl-C
will work or not is random.

Michael.


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