Not sure exactly but there are a couple of things that will make the command line do that. Unfinished quote like " or ' will leave the command waiting for the closing quote. Another thing is a case, do or if block without esac, done or fi. Then there are a few commands that will leave you in that state like mail, grep with no arguments, and a few others. Bill Wesson was trying to help you out of a command like mail. ctrl-d helps you out of mail or most of the other problems as well. Hope this helps clear some things up. -Bill Warner On Tue, 2005-01-04 at 08:13 -0700, Siri Amrit Kaur wrote: > On Tuesday 04 January 2005 08:01 am, Bill Wesson kindly wrote: > > > Are you sure you are at a terminal prompt? > > Try: > > quit > > exit > > help > > > > Bill > > > Problem was I couldn't get a terminal prompt- I lost it- so none of those > commands worked. Ken recommended "Ctrl+d" and that got a prompt back. Thanks > for trying to help me. > > Siri Amrit > --------------------------------------------------- > PLUG-discuss mailing list - PLUG-discuss@lists.plug.phoenix.az.us > To subscribe, unsubscribe, or to change you mail settings: > http://lists.PLUG.phoenix.az.us/mailman/listinfo/plug-discuss -- Bill Warner --------------------------------------------------- PLUG-discuss mailing list - PLUG-discuss@lists.plug.phoenix.az.us To subscribe, unsubscribe, or to change you mail settings: http://lists.PLUG.phoenix.az.us/mailman/listinfo/plug-discuss