On Tue, Jul 15, 2003 at 07:42:30AM -0400, Shawn Lamson wrote:
> On Tue, July 15 at 12:38 PM EDT
> "Antony Gelberg" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> >ctrl+q.
> 
> Thanks it works - can you give me a little detail on what this is?  Is in fact a
> "suspend"... what is its purpose?

Ctrl-S pauses output, and has been around on terminals for years (I
think even DOS might have it?). It's useful when a program is spewing
output very quickly and you want to pause it so that you can see what's
going on in more detail.

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Colin Watson                                  [EMAIL PROTECTED]


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