Re: How to halt a running program without losing data?

"John Doe" <jdoe@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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> robin wrote:
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> >PL/I provides the ability to do this.
> >You can interrupt a program at any time, and can then do anything you
> >want, including printing the values of variables (useful if you want
> >to inspect the salient value of some iterative process to see whether
> >it is converging, etc), or reading in the values of any variables, etc.
> > You write what you want to do in an ON-unit (effectively
> >a procedure) that is entered when you interrupt from the keyboard.

> Gee, now if we could actually find a PL/1 compiler ...

PL/I compilers are available for the PC and ...


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