Command input and response – GE 68K System User Manual

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68K System Monitor
User's Guide

GE Energy Services

General

SWM0023-1.00 -2

Full Release

1-5

Command Input and Response,

Continued

Regular Keyboard Input (continued)

Special Control
Characters

You can use these special control characters to perform advanced editing and screen
navigation functions.

Command

Characters

Description

Abort

CTRL

-

C

returns the Monitor to the command line prompt
and aborts most commands being processed.
Note:

a

CTRL

-

C

command does not work in

a TELNET connection.

Delete

CTRL

-

D

deletes the current character of the previous
command line.

Insert

CTRL

-

I

or

TAB

toggles the current mode to/from overwrite or
insert. The monitor always starts in overwrite
mode.

Advance

CTRL

-

A

causes the monitor to copy the character from
the previous command buffer reference location
to the current location in the input command
buffer.

This character also returns the monitor to
overwrite mode.

Repeat

CTRL

-

R

allows editing and re-execution of the previous
command by copying the previous command
line from the character at the previous
command reference location (up to the end of
the previous command buffer) into the current
input command buffer
Note:

D20ME and D25 have a 5-line
command buffer.

Execute

CTRL

-

X

copies the most previously used command to
the command line and executes it.

Xoff, Xon

CTRL

-

S

and

CTRL

-

Q

the combination of

CTRL

-

S

(Xoff) and

CTRL

-

Q

(Xon) stops and starts scrolling of the monitor’s
display.

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