> > Some terminals, the Tek 401x series especially, could > > be configured to tell the host to stop sending text on > > a "page full" condition. Some sent the proper RS-232 > > hardware signals, some sent <ctrl-s>/<ctrl-x>.
> Really? That's interesting. What did <ctrl-s> do? On the > terminal emulators I have on hand at the moment, none of them > are responding or behaving differently. I remember these as <ctrl-s> and <ctrl-q> (ASCII DC1 and DC3). Typing "stty -a" gives (among other stuff): start = ^Q; stop = ^S and it works as intended (<ctrl-s> stops output to the terminal and <ctrl-q> enables it again). Wikipedia has a page on this: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Software_flow_control Particularly irritating was emacs's use of <ctrl-s> for "search" because it conflicted with this flow-control, meaning that you had to either reconfigure your tty settings or the emacs keybindings. (Vi did not use <ctrl-s> or <ctrl-q> and was therefore "safe".)
