Re: breaking out of script

[Hans-Bernhard B. <br...@ph...>]

On Sun, 12 Sep 2004, Daniel J Sebald wrote:

> I've spruced up the Tcl/Tk demo a bit.  A list box selects the demo to 
> run.  There is the "Next" button that Donald included.  I want to 
> include a "Stop" button for breaking out of the demo.  In other words, I 
> want the "Stop" button to behave as a cntrl-C to gnuplot.  Any idea of 
> how to do that from a non-command-line environment?  I'm guessing that 
> may be system dependent.  Is there an escape character I can send to 
> gnuplot when in pause mode that will stop it executing any script files? 

Send a SIGINT to the child?  Send it a literal Ctrl-C character?
Send it an 'exit' or 'quit' command?

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Hans-Bernhard Broeker (br...@ph...)
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