frozen ttys

[Chuck Hallenbeck]

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Greg,

If ctrl-s freezes your terminal, unfreeze it with ctrl-q. Those
are "flow control" characters used on ancient systems to keep a
fast source from overwhelming a slower target.

Chuck


On Tue, 13 Apr 2004, Gregory Nowak wrote:

> I've seen this same problem, especially when accidently hitting ctrl+s
> at the prompt, when actually meaning to hit ctrl+d, so would welcome
> an answer other then do telinit 1 as well.

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