Re: ITS A COMPUTER QUESTION

Doc Hammerslack wrote:
> 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.
> 
When did % specify that he wasn't stopping something looking for stdin? 
Show your assumptions quite clearly, please. % wasn't very clear on his 
set of circumstances, so I don't see why it couldn't perfectly well be a 
Python EOF he's looking for. You're obviously not an engineer. Engineers 
look for _general_ solutions not specific ones catered to specious 
anomalies encountered once a millennium. For chrissakes, it could have 
been the chirping microcomputer my mate and I built in Microcomputing, 
where the answer is, "Smash it against the wall." You've got some 
gumption saying your way is right when there were zero details given.