Terminal question

[Dan Barrett]

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Drew Taylor wrote:
| OK, this has been bugging me for ages now. I'm using PuTTY for ssh.
| Every once in a while when using emacs keystrokes I'll accidentally do
| Control-S, which results in a complete hanging of the terminal. I have
| to close the window and open another session. What is this control code
| doing, and is there a way I can turn it off?

Ctrl-S is the term suspend sequence (not just with PuTTY; it works on
the console, as well).  Negate it by sending a Ctrl-Q.
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