control-C vi.
1. "Stop whatever you are doing." From the
interrupt character used on many operating systems to abort a
running program. Considered silly. 2. interj. Among BSD Unix
hackers, the canonical humorous response to "Give me a break!"
1. "Stop whatever you are doing." From the
interrupt character used on many operating systems to abort a
running program. Considered silly. 2. interj. Among BSD Unix
hackers, the canonical humorous response to "Give me a break!"
Related:
- control-C vi.
1. "Stop whatever you are doing." From the
interrupt character used on many operating systems to abort a
running program.
Considered silly. 2. interj. Among BSD Unix hackers... - control-O: vi. "Stop talking." From the character used on some
operating systems to abort output but allow the program to keep on
running.
Generally means that you are not interested in hearing... - control-O vi.
"Stop talking." From the character used on
some operating systems to abort output but allow the program to
keep on running.
Generally means that you are not interested in hearing... - break: 1. vt. To cause to be {broken} (in any sense).
"Your latest patch to the editor broke the paragraph... - break
1. vt. To cause to be broken (in any sense).
"Your latest patch to the editor broke the paragraph... - line starve: [MIT] 1. vi. To feed paper through a printer the
wrong way by one line (most printers can't do this).
On a display terminal, to move the cursor up to... - control-S: vi. "Stop talking for a second." From the ASCII DC3
or XOFF character (the pronunciation /X-of/ is therefore also
used).
Control-S differs from {control-O} in that the person... - trap: 1. n. A program interrupt, usually an interrupt caused by
some exceptional situation in the user program.
In most cases, the OS performs some action, then... - trap
1. n. A program interrupt, usually an interrupt caused
by some exceptional situation in the user program.
In most cases, the OS performs some action, then...
