VOGONS


First post, by mike_canada

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In normal MS-DOS when someone presses CTRL+C or CTRL+BREAK, one would see the following on their screen before the command prompt:

^c

and CTRL+C is meant to about the current action.

But in DOSBOX at the command prompt, when one does CTRL+C, it assumes someone pressed some heart symbol on their keyboard and a solid heart appears on the screen.

and if someone presses enter after CTRL+C then the heart is assumed to be a DOS command or a parameter to a program depending on what the user types.

I added a picture in attachments so you can see what I mean.

This affects DOSBOX 0.74 in linux.

Reply 2 of 2, by Wengier

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Ctrl-C is not useful for DOS gaming, which is why it is not implemented in DOSBox by default. On the other hand, DOSBox-X does implement full Ctrl-C/Ctrl-Break handler because it goes beyond gaming.