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The pages on this site contain documentation for very old MS-DOS software, purely for historical purposes. If you're looking for up-to-date documentation, particularly for programming, you should not rely on the information found here, as it will be woefully out of date.

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                              BREAK──Examples
 
To specify that MS-DOS is to check for CTRL+C only while it is reading from
the keyboard or writing to the screen or printer, type the following
command:
 
    break off
 
To specify that MS-DOS is to check for CTRL+C while it is reading from a
disk or the keyboard or writing to a disk or the screen, type the following
command:
 
    break on
 
To turn on this extended CTRL+C checking every time you start your system,
include the following command in your CONFIG.SYS file:
 
    break=on
 
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