break
The break command lets you send a special hardware signal called
a break condition to the remote system. The break key on your keyboard
(if there is one) only works locally and cannot be used to send a break
to the remote computer. The break command without an argument
sends a break condition to the remote system while you are in command
mode. You can also use the break command to define your own
break key to use while in talk mode to send a
break to the remote system:
break key
The key can be any printable character you won't otherwise need
to type or a control character. To enter a control character, use the ^
character (or the current meta character).
For example:
break ^G
To send a break immediately from command mode, enter the break
command without an argument:
break
Some interface hardware is incapable
of sending breaks.