Terminal question

[gboyce at badbelly.com]

Control-Q

On Fri, 14 May 2004, 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?
> 
> Drew
> *frustrated at doing it 2x in 2 minutes for the last time*
> 
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