Thus it was written in the epistle of Mark Bixby,
>
> > 7) Support Control-C in the POSIX shell.  Possibly other interrupts too?
> > Related to "CI elimination" since the logon shell may want MPE break
> > functionality.
>
> God, yes!  It's very annoying to have to break/:ABORT the shell to stop a
> hung or looping program.  Then I have to re-run the shell, and re-establish
> my environment.  Tedious and annoying.
>
For we (I?) who are not as well informed, how would the Control-C support
differ from the functionality of Control-Y in the shell as it is today.  That
is, what doesn't Control-Y do that Control-C ought to (hmm, maybe that wasn't
clearer wording, oh, well).

Ted
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