This is the mail archive of the
cygwin@cygwin.com
mailing list for the Cygwin project.
RE: ctrl-s freeze bash?
- From: "Hannu E K Nevalainen \(garbage mail\)" <garbage_collector at telia dot com>
- To: <cygwin at cygwin dot com>
- Date: Wed, 17 Sep 2003 18:17:57 +0200
- Subject: RE: ctrl-s freeze bash?
> From: cygwin-owner@cygwin.com [mailto:cygwin-owner@cygwin.com]On Behalf
> Of Lucifer
> If press Ctrl-S in rxvt running bash and then the bash becomes inactive,
> i.e. does not response to any key stroke. I have to open another rxvt
> and kill -9 <pid>. Is this a feature or a bug? I found that in the dos
> prompt box bash is never affected by the ctrl-s.
Ever heard of XON/XOFF ASCII characters?
XOFF - stop transmitting (CTRL-S in many cases)
XON - start transmitting (CTRL-Q in many cases)
Try CTRL-Q when your "bash becomes inactive"
/Hannu E K Nevalainen, B.Sc. EE - 59?16.37'N, 17?12.60'E
-- UTC+1, GMT+1, CET --
--END OF MESSAGE--
--
Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple
Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html
Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html
FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/