ctrl-s big piss off in konsole

[cryptopia]

On Friday 21 June 2002 10:53 am, Bob Ramsey wrote:
> At 08:55 AM 6/21/2002,  James Tappin wrote:
> >Come on guys -- X-on X-off (Ctrl-S/Ctrl-Q) control has been a part of just
> >about any console/terminal since about 1980
>
> I hope that was written tongue in cheek.  How would someone new to
> KDE/Gnu/Linux know this, or even know where in the manual to look it
> up?  If you don't know you accidentally hit ctrl+s, how do you know to even
> look up that ctrl+q is the answer?

In DOS, ctrl-s was used to stop and start scrolling.

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