Path: utzoo!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!mailrus!wasatch!cs.utexas.edu!uunet!mcsun!ukc!edcastle!hwcs!zen!frank From: frank@zen.co.uk (Frank Wales) Newsgroups: news.newusers.questions Subject: Re: Killing a screenful? Message-ID: <1696@zen.co.uk> Date: 21 Aug 89 12:52:25 GMT References: <15069@dartvax.Dartmouth.EDU> <13558@bloom-beacon.MIT.EDU> <13570@bloom-beacon.MIT.EDU> Reply-To: frank@zen.co.uk (Frank Wales) Organization: Zengrange Limited, Leeds, England Lines: 18 In article rodney@taac.ipl.rpi.edu (Rodney Peck II) writes: >WDS> David Datta e-mailed me the solution: >>You can hit [control] C during the printing of the text (in 'rn') I >>also needed the exact same thing as I usually do the same thing. >WDS> And it works -- be aware, though, ^C kills the printing of the >WDS> _entire_ article-in-progress, not just the printing of the current >WDS> screenful. And, incidentally, this _isn't_ in TFM. > >no, that is part of Unix which has it's own manuals. You can stop >just about anything with control c. To be more precise, your interrupt character does this; on many Unix systems, it is ctrl-c, on others it is del, and it could be almost anything. Look in the manual on stty(1) for more info on how to find out what it is, and how to change it (if you want to). -- Frank Wales, Systems Manager, [frank@zen.co.uk<->mcvax!zen.co.uk!frank] Zengrange Ltd., Greenfield Rd., Leeds, ENGLAND, LS9 8DB. (+44) 532 489048 x217