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On Thu, Feb 07, 2013 at 11:35:04AM -0500, Fishbeck, John wrote:

> Ah, good point Dave. I do believe that the Break key does generate a 
> Ctrl-C event (a SIGINT event for you 'nix hacks), although I'm not 100% 
> certain of that.

I don't think it is quite a CTRL-C or didn't used to be.  Could depend
on how the system treats it.

////jerry
  
> 
> Regards,
> John
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: David McFarlane [mailto:[log in to unmask]] 
> Sent: Thursday, February 07, 2013 11:18 AM
> To: Fishbeck, John; [log in to unmask]
> Subject: Re: [MSUNAG] How do you disable Caps Lock for your fleet PCs?
> 
> John,
> 
> At 2/7/2013 10:37 AM Thursday, Fishbeck, John wrote:
> >There are a few of us dinosaurs still around who actually do 
> >occasional work at the Windows CLI (and yes, Virginia, there is a 
> >Windows 'shell' CLI environment), where the Break key is recognized 
> >by most command line utilities and will get you out of a hung/looping program.
> 
> Just to clarify, does that do anything different from Ctrl+C (or 
> <Ctrl>C, or ^C, pick your notation)?
> 
> -- dkm
>