[1142] in RedHat Linux List
Re: C-s on a terminal
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Alan Shutko)
Sat Oct 26 17:57:56 1996
To: maillard@vt.edu
Cc: redhat-list@redhat.com
From: Alan Shutko <ats@wydo125.wustl.edu>
Date: 26 Oct 1996 15:56:10 -0600
In-Reply-To: Julien Maillard's message of Sat, 26 Oct 1996 17:17:54 -0400
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>>>>> "JM" == Julien Maillard <maillard@tulipe.val.org> writes:
JM> can anyone tell me why "C-s" hangs terminals, whether it's a tty,
JM> xterm, rxvt... i sometimes hit "C-s" by mistake and always find
JM> myself stuck there with the only choice of killing the
JM> terminal.
It's the XON (or XOFF< can never remember which is which) character,
which is intended for flow control. If this happens, type C-q. To
disable this processing, do 'stty -ixon'.
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