Exiting man pages display

[Dom Bekarge <dbekarge netzero net>]

Newbie question:

How does one exit a man page gracefully?


I just installed RedHat Linux 6 (Hedwig) and logged in as root.
I used character mode, and did not use startx to launch a graphical shell.

Since I am a Unix novice, I began to read some man pages about
some of the command line commands like ls, etc.

I typed

man ls

and got the man help screens regarding the ls command.

The screens moved forward when I pressed the Enter or Spacebar keys.

At the end of the man pages for ls, the bottom line of the screen showed

(EXIT)

in reverse video highlight.

Some experimentation showed two ways to exit the man pages:

1.  Ctrl+Alt+Del, but this shuts down the system.
2.  Ctrl+Z

After reading several different man pages, I noticed that Ctrl+Z
would return me to the command prompt, but a counter would appear
like

[1]+

and the next time

[2]+

and so on.

Am I exiting the man pages properly?

What is this counter?

Does the counter suggest that I am stacking processes or shells
similar to MS-DOS command /c ?

Dom Bekarge
<dbekarge netzero net>


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