Re: ITS A COMPUTER QUESTION

At Wed, 12 Aug 2026 18:42:28 -0600, Lane W <[email protected]> wrote:

> 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.

If only % used a real OS -- he often specifies that he is stuck
on MS Windows, Cutler's bastard knock-off of VMS:

 VMS
+111
=WNT

Now, Powershell does accept ctrl-d to end the shell, but he
said "stop" not "terminate".  (Engineering requires precision --
otherwise: the screws rattle.)

(On the other hand, he could be using tcsh.  His name is a prompt.)

-- 
Doc Hammerslack
] The entity called "Bob" used to control the earth cannot 
] possibly ever be examined and exorcised from this so-called 
] 'reality.'