On Wed, Apr 30, 2008 at 09:05:39AM +0100, Bob Latham wrote:
In article <20080430074959.GA31344@th-shell-1>,
Chris G <cl(a)isbd.net> 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'.
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Chris Green