Re: [EXIM] Exim shuts up on ^C!

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Author: Dom Mitchell
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To: Daniel Ryde
CC: Alan Barrett, Philip Hazel, exim-users
Subject: Re: [EXIM] Exim shuts up on ^C!
On 30 January 1998, Daniel Ryde proclaimed:
> On Fri, 30 Jan 1998, Dom Mitchell wrote:
>
> > Yes, that is definitely the case. I (not so cleverly as it turns out)
> > thought that it wouldn't interfere, as I wasn't telnetting to port 23.
> > Silly me. However, it does still raise the 8 bittyness question.
>
> Does'nt telnet use the OOB flag (Out Of Band data) in the TCP package when
> using Ctrl-C ?


Maybe. But if an application doesn't listen out for that signal, it
will quite happily pass it by.
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Dom Mitchell -- Demon Internet Ltd.
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