The TIME and TEST commands can be used after most attention interrupts without terminating the interrupted process.

For example, if you are listing data at your terminal and you want to know what time it is, you can press the attention interrupt key, enter the TIME command, and then press the Enter key again to go back to listing data.

Entering any command other than TIME or TEST causes current processing to terminate. However, you might see one output record from the interrupted program after you enter your next command. This is normal for some programs.