On Jun 5, 2013, at 4:18, "Nemana, Satya" <snem...@sonusnet.com> wrote:

> Hi
>  
> I am having a slight difficulty in getting this accomplished.
> When my perl program keeps running, I sometimes need to pause the screen 
> output and check some things on the output.
> But, I want my program to still keep running  while I pause the screen. 
> (using ctrl+s on putty)
> But the program also is pausing.(I tested this with a simple program which 
> prints number from 1-100 sleeping 1 second after each print , but the main 
> program I am trying to get this working is much complex, so will try things 
> here first before modifying the original program)
>  
> Test Code :
>  
> use strict;
> use warnings;
> for (my $i=1; $i <= 200; $i++)
> {
> print "\ni is $i";
> sleep 1;
> }
>  
> Please, could someone throw some light on which areas of perl to look at for 
> this.
> I am not looking for a program, but specific areas where I have to do the 
> reading.
> I will come back with the program once I can make out what to do for any 
> suggestions.
>  
> Thanks,
> Satya
>  

Your program should still be running, and it should still accept keyboard 
input. After ctrl-s, you just can't see any input/output. Try ctrl-q to recover.

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