Yes with some caveats. Ctrl-period will stop the backend engine (the thing
that executes your syntax). It will not stop actions in the viewer window
such as generating output. Also, if the backend is in a very
tight-processing loop, you may have to wait a very long time for it to honor
the Stop Processor command because it's busy trying to calculate something.
If SPSS is in a completely frozen state it will never poll for the Stop
Processor event. If you can't drop down the File menu where the command
lives, you can't stop the processor through the keyboard.
Note that any syntax that did run will most likely be in the journal file.
-----Original Message-----
From: SPSSX(r) Discussion [mailto:
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Martin
Sent: Thursday, February 11, 2010 7:05 AM
To:
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Subject: interrupt SPSS process?
Is there a keyboard or perhaps syntax command to interrupt SPSS processing?
I'm a syntax klutz, and managed to send it off in a loop or something
yesterday, and ended up force quitting -- losing some edits.
regards,
Ian
Ian D. Martin, Ph.D.
Tsuji Laboratory
University of Waterloo
Dept. of Environment & Resource Studies
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