Date: Wed, 1 Apr 1998 11:23:39 +0300 (IDT)
From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz AT is DOT elta DOT co DOT il>
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Subject: Re: "bash"ing "cat"s.
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On Tue, 31 Mar 1998, Mahadevan R. wrote:

> Incidently, writing to handle 0 using ah=40h/int 21h (or _write) also
> seems to solve the problem.  The call actually succeeds (carry clear) even
> though it shouldn't. 

Why do you say ``it shouldn't''?  The conclusion in this thread was
that the reason for this behavior is some quirk peculiar to the DOS
console device driver.  If so, any write to the CON device would
probably produce the same effect.  I didn't test, but I'd bet that
even if you open "CON" on another handle and write to it, it will
clear the ^Z condition as well.