68K System Monitor

User's Guide

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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-Ccommand does not work in

 

 

 

a TELNET connection.

 

 

 

Delete

CTRL-D

deletes the current character of the previous

 

 

command line.

 

 

 

Insert

CTRL-I or

toggles the current mode to/from overwrite or

 

TAB

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

the combination of CTRL-S(Xoff) and CTRL-Q

 

 

 

and CTRL-Q

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

 

 

 

 

display.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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