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Re:ASCII Delimited Text – Not CSV or TAB delimited text by csixty4 on Wednesday March 26, 2014 @05:40PM (#7476866)
For anyone wondering, X-ON and X-OFF are flow control characters. A device sends X-OFF to say "my buffer is full, stop sending data" and X-ON when it's ready to resume.

On most Unix terminals, these have the effect of pausing and resuming the display when a bunch of data is scrolling by.

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Re:ASCII Delimited Text – Not CSV or TAB delimited text by __del__ on Wednesday March 26, 2014 @07:03PM (#7477301)
...and they're helpfully disabled with stty -ixon
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