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Date:Mon Jan 10 14:24:02 2003 
Subject:Re: pop-forum: Ved and CTRL+S 
From:ian 
Volume-ID:1030110.02 


<ctrl>-s on Unix boxes means "stop the output" - the machine hasn't 
hung, it's just not printing anything. Press <ctrl>-q to restart the 
output.

I don't know how to stop this from happening.

Ian.

> Peeps,
> 
> A quick Ved question from a child of the Windows look and feel.
> 
> While I normally manage to hit "ENTER w1" to save a file, from time to
> time my subconscious gets the better of me and I hit "CTRL+S". This 
 seems
> to have the unfortunate effect of either crashing Ved, or at least 
 putting
> it into a state from which I don't know how to recover.
> 
> I looked at "HELP VEDKEYS" for guidance and it says that "CTRL+S" is a
> shortcut that is normally used by the operating system and that Ved
> doesn't handle it. These two questions spring to mind:
> 
> 1. What the heck is going on?
> 
> 2. How do I stop it happening, or at least how do I recover from this
>    "dead state" once I've got there?
> 
> I'm using ordinary ved (not xved) in a pretty much standard 
 Birmingham Uni
> Poplog setup.
> 
> Many Thanks,
> Dave
> 
> -- 
> Dave Gurnell
> d.j.gurnell@cs.bham.ac.uk
> 
> 
> 
 
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