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Control-C Vi. 1. "Stop Whatever You Are Doing." From The Interrupt Character Used On Many Operating Systems To Abort A Running Program.
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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!"
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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!...
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 anything more from that person, at least on that topic...
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 anything more from that person, at least on that topic...
break: 1. vt. To cause to be {broken} (in any sense).
Your latest patch to the editor broke the paragraph commands....
break 1. vt. To cause to be broken (in any sense).
"Your latest patch to the editor broke the paragraph commands....
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 the previous line of the screen....
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 is asked to stop talking (perhaps because you are on the phone) but will be allowed to continue when you're ready to listen to him -- as opposed to control-O, which has more of the meaning of "Shut up....
ap: 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 returns control to the program....
ap 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 returns control to the program....