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Re: C-s on a terminal

daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Skull)
Sat Oct 26 20:02:06 1996

From: Skull <skull@yakko.cs.wmich.edu>
To: redhat-list@redhat.com
Date: Sat, 26 Oct 1996 20:00:12 -0400 (EDT)
In-Reply-To: <199610262342.TAA10264@redhat.com> from "Wierdl Mate" at Oct 26, 96 06:42:30 pm
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> > can anyone tell me why "C-s" hangs terminals, whether it's a tty, xterm, 
> > rxvt... i sometimes hit "C-s" by mistake and always find myself stuck there 
> > with the only choice of killing the terminal. 
 
> Type C-q. See any Unix book on flow control.
Control S is pause, control Q removes the pause.

Darron


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