On Wed, Jul 4, 2012 at 1:50 PM, Steve Holdoway <[email protected]> wrote: > I'm sitting here watching pages of verbose messages on an ssh session in > the US. Probably because of the fact that they're all on holiday, the > bandwidth is miniscule. > > Put me in mind of the good old days* of VMS, where you could Ctrl-O, and > the display wasn't written to any more. This was actually important at > times ( ie loads of output could bugger up the buffering writing to tape > and decimate throughput ), but it occurs to me that it might be doin the > same thing over this connection. > > Was it or an equivalent ever implemented does anyone know??
ctrl-q or ctrl-s (I think) one of them pauses output, the other restarts. However I can't find a file big enough to take long enough to cat it that I have time to try the key combos. > > Cheers, > > Steve > > *Peering down an old VT52 watching an 11/750 compile your code? No they > weren't that good were they (: > -- > Steve Holdoway BSc(Hons) MNZCS <[email protected]> > http://www.greengecko.co.nz > MSN: [email protected] > Skype: sholdowa > > _______________________________________________ > Linux-users mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.canterbury.ac.nz/mailman/listinfo/linux-users > _______________________________________________ Linux-users mailing list [email protected] http://lists.canterbury.ac.nz/mailman/listinfo/linux-users
