Re: Exiting man pages display

["Satish Alreja" <malreja vsnl com>]

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Satish Alreja


-----Original Message-----
From: Dom Bekarge <dbekarge netzero net>
To: 'redhat-install-list redhat com' <redhat-install-list redhat com>
Date: 30 September, 1999 5:33 AM
Subject: Exiting man pages display


>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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