pause are return the to work.

i am new here. so may be this is a simple question but i did not see what i was looking for.
i have been using linuxcnc for about a 8months now.

i am looking for a way to pause a job bring the cutter up and have a look see and then send it back to work.

pause works for me but it does not allow me to bring the tool up or move it around at all.

Well, even my old Allen-Bradley 7320 had "jog retract" where you could interrupt a long cut, retract one axis only, and then resume the cut. That would be a useful feature.

BUT, LinuxCNC does have a "run from line" feature under the "machine" pull-down menu. You select a line in the G-code window, using scroll keys if needed, and then go to the menu and select run from line. Then, when you click R or run on the screen, it goes to that point and starts at the selected line. If you have stopped the spindle, you will have to start it in MDI mode before doing the run.

Jon