Re: inetd and proftpd (and xterm)

Don Fischer (donald.fischer@yale.edu)
Mon, 25 Jan 1999 18:54:45 -0500 (EST)

On Mon, 25 Jan 1999, Ken Lai wrote:

> Now, the XTERM strangeness. Ctrl-S locks up my xterm input. (mouse menus
> with ctrl still work) You can probably try it yourself and see. Is that
> supposed to happen? Could I fix it?
>
> (I remember vaguely that emacs help tutorial said something about Ctrl-S
> messing up on some terminals, but I can't recall if it's relevant to
> this.)

Control-S is the unix "suspend" control sequence. When you do this by
accident, type Control-Q to "unsuspend" your terminal. (This might be a VT100
thing..)

don