[Linux-users] ctrl-s locks up the linux terminal!

[Robert L. Fries]

On Sat, Nov 10, 2001 at 11:58:01PM -0500, Sundara Raman Rajagopalan wrote:
> Hi,
> 
>    I don't know if this is a "problem", but I have noticed that
>  the ctrl-s key sequence seems to lock up any terminal...I thought that
>  this was a problem with my key settings, but this happens at another
>  linux system into which I can telnet to...can you tell me how to prevent
>  this? ( ctrl-s happens to be "save" in Word, and I use this accidentally
>  quite a lot in Vi :-( )

hey,

This I  believe is a shell thing but I don't know if it is different in different shells.

I don't know how to "turn it off" or if you can but <ctrl>-q should give you back control..

It's not that it looses control but it stops echoing out to the screen.. once you hit <ctl>-q
it will output all the char's you have hit.

-Rob