Unix Guide by Chris Budhram, Adelphi University Adapted for the web by Valeria Ciancimino 7 Processes Processes are programs running on the computer.
Processes have a number of states like running, suspended, blocking, sleeping, and zombied.
The only states of real interest to the average user are running and suspended. To get out of nearly any program on panther you can press control-c. That is hold down the control key and press the 'c' key and then release them both. This sends the interrupt signal to the current process and it should terminate itself. If you press the control-z sequence, it will suspend the current process, and the process will wait for you to resume it.