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. -- Colin Watson [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

