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Date:Mon Jan 10 16:33:03 2003 
Subject:Re: pop-forum: Ved and CTRL+S 
From:Stephen Isard 
Volume-ID:1030110.03 

kers@hplb.hpl.hp.com wrote:
> 
> In article <avmja1$6is$1@soapbox.cs.bham.ac.uk>,
>         D.J.Gurnell@cs.bham.ac.uk writes:
 
> CTRL+S is a way of saying "stop sending me data! I can't handle it!!
> stop, stop, stop!!!" as a flow-control mechanism.
> 
> > 2. How do I stop it happening, or at least how do I recover from this
> >    "dead state" once I've got there?

If you don't want the behaviour of ctrl-s (and I can't see why anyone
would these days) you can turn it off with

stty stop undef

And if you put that line in an initialisation file like .login,
.profile, .bashrc, or whatever is appropriate on your system, then you
won't have to type it over and over again.  (See man stty if you want to
understand what the incantation means.)

Stephen Isard