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Thu, 11 Aug 2005, by dhoworth@mrc-lmb.cam.ac.uk:
Clayton wrote:
After using a man command, (I recently read up on man mount) how do I get back to the shell prompt?
I tried ESC, but most intelligently it just parrots my key - says "ESC" and does nothing else. Ctrl+F4 completely closes the Konsole window.
Thanks in advance...
q for quit. :-)
I am doing a no-no by typing CTRL-Z or CTRL-C to close man?
Not really. 'q' is a clean exit... Ctrl+z isn't. Either works.
CTRL-Z isn't an exit at all! The process is still there, just suspended.
Not suspended, sent to the background. It's still running, it just doesn't listen to stdin anymore, and doesn't send anything to stdout. See 'help jobs bg fg' and signal(7)
CTRL-C does exit the process (any process).
Not really, SIGINT can be ignored by a process, or trapped by the shell. . Theo -- Theo v. Werkhoven Registered Linux user# 99872 http://counter.li.org ICBM 52 13 26N , 4 29 47E. + ICQ: 277217131 SUSE 9.2 + Jabber: muadib@jabber.xs4all.nl Kernel 2.6.8 + See headers for PGP/GPG info. Claimer: any email I receive will become my property. Disclaimers do not apply.