On Wed, 2012-07-04 at 16:34 +1200, Nick Rout wrote: > 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?? >
Crtl-O didn't stop the output, just redirected to /dev/null, stopping any potential bottelnecks in the blazingly fast 9600 baud serial link... Steve -- Steve Holdoway BSc(Hons) MNZCS <[email protected]> http://www.greengecko.co.nz MSN: [email protected] Skype: sholdowa
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