Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Path: utzoo!mnetor!uunet!seismo!mcnc!ecsvax!uccjcm From: uccjcm@ecsvax.UUCP (Jonathon C. McLendon IV) Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc Subject: Re: DOS 3.2 CNTL-S & CNTL-Q Message-ID: <3527@ecsvax.UUCP> Date: Sat, 11-Jul-87 11:47:08 EDT Article-I.D.: ecsvax.3527 Posted: Sat Jul 11 11:47:08 1987 Date-Received: Sun, 12-Jul-87 16:04:59 EDT References: <9.352645a231@chemo.uucp> Organization: UNC Educational Computing Service Lines: 10 Summary: You're hitting Ctrl-Q twice in a row In article <9.352645a231@chemo.uucp>, brian@chemo.uucp (Brian J. McGinness) writes: > I have noticed something about cntl-s in DOS that bothers me. > When I attempt to pause some output by using cntl-s, and resume with > cntl-q, this only works about 15 times. After that, it refuses to pause > no matter what you do. I have a lister, but sometimes I still type files > and try to suspend and resume their output. Any ideas? Pls email to: > chemo!brian@wrl.epi.com :INTERNET The problem is that you are hitting ctrl-Q twice in a row. If you do this, ctrl-s no longer works. The solution, use ctrl-s to both start and stop the output (or use scroll-lock).