On Wed, Apr 30, 2008 at 09:05:39AM +0100, Bob Latham wrote: > In article <20080430074959.GA31344@th-shell-1>, > Chris G <cl@xxxxxxxx> wrote: > > On Wed, Apr 30, 2008 at 08:10:41AM +0100, Bob Latham wrote: > > > "on everything except Linux"? I suspect by that you mean Windows! :-) > > I can see why you would say that. In truth, I do use Windows when I have > to but by choice I use RISC OS. RISC OS does ping continuously but can be > stopped with the escape key, simple and logical. I've also used ping on > Apple but it was a while back and I cannot remember anything about it. > > > On everything (including Linux) that I have worked on a ping command > > by default continues for ever. > > It isn't the default on windows is it? Doesn't that do 5 cycles? > Oops, yes I agree, I meant to say on everything else other than Windows that I have worked on. > > To stop it you do just the same as you would on the Windows (!) > > command line, hit CTRL/C. > > I've never ever used that. Didn't know about it - thanks. How obscure! > It's been just about universal since the days of using teletypes as terminals (which I remember quite well), CTRL/C sends an interrupt to the currently running process. As someone else pointed out using ESCape as an interrupt/break character is 'obscure' as it's intended as a character escape, not a process 'escape'. -- Chris Green -- fedora-list mailing list fedora-list@xxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe: https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-list
