Re: keystroke ctrl+s freezes terminal/console

[Shawn Lamson <shawn.lamson@verizon.net>]

On Tue, July 15 at 12:38 PM EDT
"Antony Gelberg" <antony@antgel.co.uk> wrote:

>> I have noticed that pressing ctrl+s in console or xterm suspends
>> input... I have not figured out how to successfully get out of that
>> situation.  Is there a graceful way?  What is the purpose of ctrl+s (
>> i believe I have the emacs style command line editor )?  How can I
>> disable ctrl+s or alter it so that it does not freeze my
>> console/xterm? 
>> 
>> Thanks for any help.
>> 
>> Shawn Lamson
>> shawn.lamson@verizon.net
>
>ctrl+q.
>
>A

Thanks it works - can you give me a little detail on what this is?  Is in fact a
"suspend"... what is its purpose?
Again, thank you,

Shawn Lamson
shawn.lamson@verizon.net