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<html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml"><head><title>control-C</title><link rel="stylesheet" href="../../jargon.css" type="text/css"/><meta name="generator" content="DocBook XSL Stylesheets V1.61.0"/><link rel="home" href="../index.html" title="The Jargon File"/><link rel="up" href="../C.html" title="C"/><link rel="previous" href="content-free.html" title="content-free"/><link rel="next" href="control-O.html" title="control-O"/></head><body><div class="navheader"><table width="100%" summary="Navigation header"><tr><th colspan="3" align="center">control-C</th></tr><tr><td width="20%" align="left"><a accesskey="p" href="content-free.html">Prev</a> </td><th width="60%" align="center">C</th><td width="20%" align="right"> <a accesskey="n" href="control-O.html">Next</a></td></tr></table><hr/></div><dt><a id="control-C"/><dt xmlns="" id="control-C"><b>control-C</b>: <span xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml" class="grammar">vi.</span></dt></dt><dd><p> 1. &#8220;<span class="quote">Stop whatever you are doing.</span>&#8221; From the interrupt
character used on many operating systems to abort a running program.
Considered silly. </p></dd><dd><p> 2. <span class="grammar">interj.</span> Among BSD Unix
hackers, the canonical humorous response to &#8220;<span class="quote">Give me a
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