<br><br><div class="gmail_quote">2008/12/12 Michael B. Trausch <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:mike@trausch.us">mike@trausch.us</a>></span><br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
On Thu, 11 Dec 2008 19:10:46 -0500<br>
<div class="Ih2E3d">"J. D." <<a href="mailto:jdonline@gmail.com">jdonline@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<br>
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</div><div class="Ih2E3d">> 2008/12/11 Michael B. Trausch <<a href="mailto:mike@trausch.us">mike@trausch.us</a>><br>
</div><div class="Ih2E3d">> > This is a historical feature of terminals, known as soft flow<br>
> > control. One would often use it on a very slow serial terminal<br>
> > connection to perform manual pagination of sorts.<br>
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> I see. That makes sense. I guess we use pagers for that now.<br>
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</div>Pretty much. Unless people out there still regularly use 300 bps<br>
modems to communicate somewhere... <g><br>
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> > Some software that runs in the terminal (such as Emacs) overrides<br>
> > that behavior, since Emacs uses both C-s and C-q key combinations.<br>
> > I am relatively certain that means that there is a way to disable it<br>
> > generally, but it's never been a problem for me so I don't know what<br>
> > the process for that would be.<br>
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> Thanks for the suggestion. I use ctrl-d quite a bit and occasionally<br>
> it becomes ctrl-s due to typo.<br>
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</div>I've done that myself. And I should have done it enough times to<br>
recognize when I do it by now, but sometimes still I go "why the hell<br>
is my terminal hung‽"<br>
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> Great presentation on DR by the way. I just read over it. Thanks<br>
> for the link.<br>
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</div>>I can't take credit for that, that wasn't me. :)<br>
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> --- Mike<br>
</div></div></blockquote></div><br><br>Hmm not sure where that one came from. Thanks Mike Warfield for the info. :)<br>