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- Break(V1.3, 2.x, 3.x: internal command)
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- NAME
- Break - Send a signal to a background process.
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- SYNOPSIS
- Break Process=T=Task/a A=ALL/s C/s D/s E/s F/s
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- DESCRIPTION
- Many programs which run from the CLI will respond to
- the typing of one of the control characters C D E or F.
- By far the most common is control-C which usually causes
- a process to terminate. If you execute a task in the
- background (by using Run or ARun), you will not be able
- to send it a break signal from the keyboard, and that is
- where Break comes in. Once you know the CLI number of
- the process you wish to signal (available immediately
- after you run the process or by using the Status
- program), you can send one of these control signals to
- the background process. It simulates selecting a CLI
- process with the mouse and pressing the specified
- CTRL-key keystrokes.
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- You may trigger up to four breaks at a time.
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- EXAMPLE
- 1. To send a control C to background process number
- 2:
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- Break 2 C or Break 2 (Break defaults to control C)
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- 2. To send ALL control signals to background process
- number 3:
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- Break 3 C D E F or Break 3 ALL
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- 3. 2.x/3.x Only: To signal a break to a program
- running under the WAIT command:
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- Break 'STATUS Com=Wait'
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- CONSIDERATIONS
- Not all programs respond to break requests.
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- SEE ALSO
- Status
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