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From: andy@cbmvax.commodore.com (Andy Finkel)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.introduction
Subject: Re: Killing Processes
Message-ID: <20900@cbmvax.commodore.com>
Date: 24 Apr 91 00:03:25 GMT
References: <1991Apr19.122837.1@watt.ccs.tuns.ca> <22253@shlump.nac.dec.com> <1991Apr22.182924.15708@ariel.unm.edu>
Reply-To: andy@cbmvax.commodore.com (Andy Finkel)
Organization: Commodore, West Chester, PA
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In article <1991Apr22.182924.15708@ariel.unm.edu> saunders@triton.unm.edu (Richard Saunders CIRT) writes:
>In article <22253@shlump.nac.dec.com> withers@nitmoi.enet.dec.com (George A. Withers) writes:
>>In article <1991Apr19.122837.1@watt.ccs.tuns.ca>,
>>macauslandr@watt.ccs.tuns.ca writes:
>This doesn't seem to work for me in WB2.02.  I started
>a shell in the background, and when I attempted to kill it
>using the "break" command, it didn't work.  Just to be sure that
>everything was okay, I switched to the background shell and typed
>a ^C ... and it killed the background shell correctly.  The manual
>SAYS that a "break 1" is equivalent to switching to task 1
>and hitting CTRL-C.  Since it doesn't appear to work that way,
>my guess is that this is one of the perks
>of a Beta operating System ;v)
>
>* saunders@triton.unm.edu * "This is _NOT_ Mel Tormet!" - Top Secret


Shells don't get breaks...they give breaks.  Control-C won't kill
a shell.  Only an EndShell or an EOF will kill a Shell.

			andy
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