Re: Exiting man pages display

[Werner Kliewer <VKliewer mpi mb ca>]

Sorry I did not read far enough down to give more information.

CTL-ALT-DEL is a Linux only concession to people coming from the DOS 
world. This sequence is trapped and triggers a "shutdown -r now" 
command to be issued. This key sequence is not available in most other 
flavours of UNIX.

CTL-z is one of a number of Interupt signals that can be send from the 
keyboard.

CTL-z specifically means "Stop". It does not force the job to 
terminate, but simply suspends it pending another signal. The two 
signals most jobs will respond to at that point are provided by the 
"fg" (foreground) and "bg" (background) commands. Issuing the "fg" 
command will resume the process where it left off, in the foreground 
just like before you issued the CTL-z. Issuing the "bg" command to a 
stopped process will resume it where it left off, but in the background 
as if the original command had been issued with a trailing "&".

CTL-c means "terminate". Most process will exit somewhat ungracefully 
on receiving this signal.

CTL-d means "eof".

These are the three most common signals to issue from the command line. 
If you want a complete list of all signals type "kill -l". Not all 
processes respond to all signals. In fact most respond to only a small 
subset. But that is a whole other can of worms. 

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