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List:       kde-devel
Subject:    Re: Why <CTRL>+S does block a terminal ???
From:       Adriaan de Groot <adridg () sci ! kun ! nl>
Date:       2001-03-13 15:07:10
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Ctrl-S has blocked terminals since the beginning of time (1970), and you
can restart terminal output with Ctrl-Q. This is not a KDE problem, it's
because KDE runs on UNIX systems: these two control codes (called XOFF /
XON) come from the original serial line protocol, when you connected to a
UNIX computer from a dumb text terminal through a modem, and you sometimes
wanted to stop the (scrolling) output.

Try

	stty stop "^?"

to make ^S do nothing in particular (or rather, make ^? stop terminal
output, and ^? is hard to type).

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