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Terminal question



On Friday 14 May 2004 12:55 pm, Drew Taylor wrote:
> OK, this has been bugging me for ages now. I'm using PuTTY for ssh.
> Every once in a while when using emacs keystrokes I'll accidentally do
> Control-S, which results in a complete hanging of the terminal. I have
> to close the window and open another session. What is this control code
> doing, and is there a way I can turn it off?

Try pressing Control-Q to undo it.

It's software handshake protocol for (guess what) suspend.

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