If I do:

      z←⍳1000000

the operation is very fast.  But if I do:

      ⍳1000000

it is very slow, presumably because it is formatting the whole thing for
display.  No problem.

The problem is that during its effort to format for display, I cannot use
^C.  ^C appears to work fine in normal situations - but not during the
format for display time.  During format-for-display time ^C is ignored.

This caused me a problem when I accidentally mis-typed something.  The
mis-type caused something very large to be displayed.  In fact, it was so
large that my machine started paging.  I was unable to use ^C to stop it.
 After waiting an hour, I had to kill the process and loose my work.

Thanks.

Blake

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