CompuServe Messages

Something else that too many Amiga programs do, is create data files, but if the user aborts during the creation, they leave incomplete files lying around. The most notable example is the SAS C compiler – if you interrupt the compiler in the right place, it will leave bad object modules lying around. Plenty of other programs do the same thing. So, if you do check for a break, delete the file you're in the process of writing. (If everything supported the Ctrl-C break, then we could have a program that would show running programs, even if they had no windows open, and ask them to abort. Commodities lets you do this, but with a fair amount of commodities overhead). …Steve