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-Creturns 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-Ddeletes 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-Acauses 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-Rallows 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-Xcopies 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.