Re: ITS A COMPUTER QUESTION

At Wed, 12 Aug 2026 17:57:28 -0600, Lane W <[email protected]> wrote:

> Doc Hammerslack wrote:
> > At Tue, 11 Aug 2026 19:48:38 +0000, Tom Mix <[email protected]> wrote:
> > 
> >> In article <[email protected]>, % <[email protected]> wrote:
> >>
> >>> .
> >>>
> >>> when you want something to stop doing something how do you stop it
> >>
> >> ctrl-c, kill -9 pid, pkill
> > 
> > Those won't just stop the process, but will terminate it.
> > 
> > To _stop_ a process, you send it SIGSTOP.  If it's the foregrounded
> > process, usually you can hit the stop character, ctrl-z.
> 
> If it's a Python process and you want to stop it, then ctrl-D is 
> optimal. This sends the program the right messages and a well-written 
> Python program can handle these cases well.

That's actually yer terminal EOF, Norm.  Exits things that look for
EOF on stdin, like a shell, or a Python r-e-d loop.

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Doc Hammerslack
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