[sclug] Curious

[Alex Butcher]

On Sun, 28 Oct 2007, ed wrote:

> Why do most terminals lock up once CTRL-s is pressed

That's a feature, and works in DOS too. It allows you to pause text that's
scrolling too quickly to read.

> - and importantly, is there a way to resume after this!?

CTRL-Q.

Best Regards,
Alex.
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