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On Saturday 14 June 2003 13:17, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> Some one please chim in if I am wrong here, but it is my understanding
> that control-s only stops output being displayed to the terminal. It won't
> actually stop things from happening. It is ment if things are scrolling to
> fast and you to stop to read it. Control-Q is its counter-part to continue
> output.
>
> Now it may be possible that these are signals that can be trapped by
> python, but I think they are received in the tty layer and never get
> passed to python.
>
> The only thing that I can think of that can answer this question is
> actually killing the emerge [like w/ control-c], then starting it up again
> w/ emerge --resume. I know the --resume feature is new since 2.47 and was
> ment incase you emerge -e world, although it may have more uses. I can
> also tell you that --resume will have to start from the start of the last
> package it was working on, however it will not redo any that it has
> already finished.
>
> Cheers,
> Mike

I second that. The --resume option seems to be the only answer, and I've used 
it numerous times. Very effective for putting long-winded stuff on screen.

Callan
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