what does "Command–." actually means?

[Feanaaro]

This may be the most stupid question ever, and I apologize for that, but in years of using Bookends I have not managed to figure it out.
When searching references for importing, on the bottom of the search window it helpfully says " (Command–. to stop) ".
I've never been able to have it work, for me it stops only when it has finished loading all the matching references, however many there are.
So, what do I have to press? Does it mean "CMD dash dot", or does it mean "CMD dot"? Or something else (maybe "CMD ALT dash dot", since the dash character displayed is the long one)? Do the keys have to be push in sequence rather than contemporarily? I've actually tried all these options, and it still does not stop when I push any of these combinations. So I'm at a loss, maybe is the function itself that does not work well?

Thanks.

[Jon]

It means press Command and period (dot) together. In certain situations Bookends may be polling for this keypress at intervals that don't result in aborting immediately (for example, checking only after each batch of 10 refs are imported, not after each one). I can't say in your case why it's not stopping when you want. If you want to follow up on this, please contact tech support with more detail (support@sonnysoftware.com).

Jon
Sonny Software