On Tue, 2003-07-15 at 06:56, Colin Watson wrote: > 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.
Since, as others have pointed out, it's XON/XOFF and part of ASCII, every ASCII serial and pseudo-serial "console" understands it, including DOS, Windows command windows and VMS, and probably all the extinct proprietary minicomputer OSs. -- +-----------------------------------------------------------+ | Ron Johnson, Jr. Home: [EMAIL PROTECTED] | | Jefferson, LA USA http://members.cox.net/ron.l.johnson | | | | 4 degrees from Vladimir Putin +-----------------------------------------------------------+ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
