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mnemonic

In OSF/Motif, an underscored letter in a menu name. You can bring up the associated menu by pressing Alt and the mnemonic.

monitor

A software \trigger," such as a breakpoint, that interrupts target program execution and optionally describes the state of the target program after the interrupt. See breakpoint, trace, watchpoint, and intercept.

mouse button

A key on the mouse that has some action associated with it when clicked. On a two-button mouse, middle button commands can be accessed by pressing both buttons at once.

mouse cursor

See pointer.

Glossary

path map

 

A speci￿cation of the replacement of a previous path argument to the

 

property sdir command by a new path argument. The new path

 

argument replaces the old one as a directory pre￿x in the source ￿le

 

directory search path.

 

PC Location

Program location where execution stopped. The statement at this location will, by default, be the next statement to be executed when execution resumes. Same as current point of execution.

pointer

The screen object that tracks mouse movement. This is usually an arrow, but it can take other forms (such as ?) to indicate speci￿c applicable areas. It may appear as a small hourglass to indicate that an application is busy or as something resem bling a sonar w ave to indicate that a request message is being processed.

Also called the mouse cursor.

process ID (pid)

A unique identi￿cation number assigned to all processes b y the operating system.

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