Re: Gnome Exit

[Werner Kliewer <VKliewer mpi mb ca>]

Click on the "X" in the control panel at the bottom to eXit. This will 
bring up a shutdown dialogue.

In UNIX and Linux quit and exit are the two most common commands to 
stop something. Typing or clicking one or the other (or their one 
letter abbreviations which I always try first) will get you out of most 
things. Unfortunately, I have found it is not always predictable which 
will be used where. CTL-c will get you out of some things where quit or 
exit don't work, but sometimes will leave garbage behind. The one 
exception to all this is in file re-direction. If you redirect input to 
a command to come from the keyboard, the correct "end-of-input-file" 
indicator is CTL-d.

ie. the following sequence reads input from the keyboard and puts it in 
the file indicated. The CTL-d indicates EOF on the input file and is 
not stored in the file. :

prompt $ cat > some.file
type some
lines that
will end up
in the file
called
some.file
CTL-d
prompt $

If you ever mis-type a command and find the system swallowing 
everything you type, try the CTL-d sequence before you start killing 
processes.

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Werner (Vern) Kliewer
Sr. Tech. Services Analyst
Mid-Range Support
Manitoba Public Insurance
(204)-985-7745
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