The following program tries to catch Ctrl-C using crt unit: program ctrl1; uses crt; var c : char; begin crtinit; CheckBreak := false; read(c); writeln('ord(c) = ', ord(c)) end . However, when I run it and press Ctrl-C I get: ./a.out: attempt to read past end of Input (error #454 at 40b255) A bug or a feature? -- Waldek Hebisch hebisch@math.uni.wroc.pl