The DISABLE AST command disables the delivery of ASTs in your program and thereby prevents interrupts from occurring while the program is running. If ASTs are delivered while the debugger is running (processing commands, and so on), they are queued and are delivered when control is returned to the program. The ENABLE AST command reenables the delivery of ASTs, including any pending ASTs (ASTs waiting to be delivered). NOTE Any call by your program to the $SETAST system service that enables ASTs overrides a previous DISABLE AST command. Related commands: (ENABLE,SHOW) AST