Bill Allombert on Mon, 13 May 2013 14:35:42 +0200


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Re: updated windows installer for PARI


On Mon, May 06, 2013 at 09:00:55PM +0200, Bill Allombert wrote:
> On Thu, Apr 18, 2013 at 12:12:24AM -0400, jacques G wrote:
> > > I tested on some windows server 2008 and CTRL-C worked fine.
> > 
> > 1. On my VISTA laptop, CTRL-C just rings the bell, while other
> > readline controls seem to work fine. A cheap solution is 
> > decreasing the stack size, so a runaway computation
> > (such as an impossible task) will stop when memory is low, sooner. 
> 
> Further experiment by Jacques shows that disabling readline
> (with e.g. default(readline,0)) fix this issue and the one with 
> the cursor.
> 
> So I plan to add to gprc.txt 
> readline=0.

Unfortunately I made further enquiries, and on Windows server 2008, 
without readline support, CTRL-C kills gp.

Cheers,
Bill.