Date: Wed, 1 Nov 2000 22:09:22 +0000 From: j mckitrick <jcm@FreeBSD-uk.eu.org> To: flag <flag@libero.it> Cc: Dima Dorfman <dima@unixfreak.org>, freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: ctrl key to show current system operation? Message-ID: <20001101220922.A8340@dogma.freebsd-uk.eu.org> In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSF.4.21.0011012054280.212-100000@localhost>; from flag@libero.it on Wed, Nov 01, 2000 at 08:55:15PM %2B0100 References: <20001101004800.33CE61F34@static.unixfreak.org> <Pine.BSF.4.21.0011012054280.212-100000@localhost>
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On Wed, Nov 01, 2000 at 08:55:15PM +0100, flag wrote: | On Tue, 31 Oct 2000, Dima Dorfman wrote: | | > Control+T? Sample output: | > | > load: 0.10 cmd: gzip 15818 [running] 0.46u 0.00s 0% 384k | | ??? | | I tried pressing Ctrl+t or Ctrl+Shift+T but nothing happens...=P | What's wrong? You need to do it when the terminal is busy doing something. If you have the prompt, then it won't do anything. Try ssh to a slow connection, or maybe some file operation that takes a long time . The key is to get the terminal to be waiting, with no prompt, while a job is being performed. Another idea is to start a long tar operation without verbose output. All of these things should do it. Then just hit ctrl t while it is working. jcm -- "That depends on what the meaning of the word 'is' is." -President Bill Clinton "I don't know what you mean by the word 'ask.'" -CEO Bill Gates To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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