Ctrl+S in Putty

[Andrew McNabb]

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On Tue, Apr 20, 2004 at 07:14:02AM -0600, David Smith wrote:
> Every time I accidentally press Ctrl+s in Putty when connected to any=20
> Linux box via ssh, my session stops responding. How do I restore it?

Try ctrl-q.  If I remember correctly, this is leftover from the old days
when a dumb terminal would send a ctrl-s character if it was receiving
data faster than it could display it, and then send a ctrl-q when it
could handle it again.

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Andrew McNabb
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