RE: Exiting

[Skelton Brian <skelton b mellon com>]

Speaking about exiting does anyone know how to exit minicom
I have tried ctrl-c & ctrl-z without success.


> -----Original Message-----
> From:	Werner Kliewer [SMTP:VKliewer mpi mb ca]
> Sent:	29 September 1999 16:29
> To:	redhat-install-list redhat com; Dom Bekarge
> Subject:	Re: Exiting man pages display
> 
> 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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