Entries tagged as Unix
Computer aided instruction
How to get a computer aided instruction? Your system may have a command called learn which provides computer aided instruction on the file system and basic commands, the editor, document preparation and even “C†programming. IF $learn exists on your system, it will teach you what to do from there. Read More...
TYPE-ahead
Explain about TYPE-ahead. The kernel reads what you type as you type it, even if it’s busy with something else, so you can type as fast as you want, whenever you want, even when some command is printing at you. Your I/P characters will appear intermixed with the O/P characters but they will be stored Read More...
DELETE and BREAK
Explain about DELETE and BREAK. These keys have significant meaning sometimes DELETE is called as RUBOUT key. Break is sometimes called INTERRUPT. In most SYSTEMS the delete key stops a program immediately, without waiting for it to finish on some systems, Ctrl-C provides this service. Break is a synonym for DELETE or CTRL-C. Read More...
Return Key
Explain about the return key. Return Key signifies the end of a line of input; it must be presses before the system will interpret the characters you have types. It serves as an example of control character return key can be typed by holding the control key and typing M. Read More...