Session interrupt is usually not generated by ctrl-break 
but by clicking on the yellow Jbreak icon.  See:
http://www.jsoftware.com/help/user/interrupt.htm

If you are using the Jconsole then ctrl-break also works.



----- Original Message -----
From: Randy MacDonald <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Date: Wednesday, December 19, 2007 10:24
Subject: J developer regression, was Re: [Jbeta] windows dbeta available
To: Beta forum <[email protected]>

> The data analysis stuff that J seems to have abandoned is also 
> of great 
> importance to APL developers: the data being the software we are 
> developing.  It could be frustrating to discover how little 
> of a 
> developer's time is spent knowing the correct answer to a 
> problem.  That 
> this is not frustrating in practice is because APL marbles tiny 
> moments 
> of success into the whole process
> 
> I recently wanted to solve a problem which was in essence: find 
> the 
> first x, a member of i. 10^9 where f x was true.  Because 
> 10^9 is a big 
> number, what I would do in APL was this: show progress in steps 
> of 1000, 
> and allow me to interrupt the whole process (with Ctrl-Break) if 
> it 
> looks like it will never find an answer, perhaps because I 
> expected one 
> sooner  Nope.  As far as I can tell, display to the 
> session is 
> suppressed until a return to immediate execution, and Ctrl-Break 
> doesn't 
> work at all.
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