It's all fun and games until someone [XOFF]

Re:It's all fun and games until someone [XOFF] by fit2rule on Sunday June 21, 2015 @05:09AM (#9752740)

Never needed flow control? Like, never?

Not much of a console user then, maybe? Because, like, cat /something is useless without page control.

Oh, maybe you're a speedreader?

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Re:It's all fun and games until someone [XOFF] by na85 on Sunday June 21, 2015 @05:21AM (#9752759)

I notice you are consistently a jerk when you write replies. Please stop being so snarky/sarcastic.

I never use flow control either, I just pipe it to less.

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Re:It's all fun and games until someone [XOFF] by jacquesm on Sunday June 21, 2015 @05:39AM (#9752782)

I looked through his comment history and I really can't agree with you, this one comment is funny given the speed of todays consoles (when in the past I could easily keep up). Maybe you're confusing him/her with some other user?

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Re:It's all fun and games until someone [XOFF] by fit2rule on Sunday June 21, 2015 @08:21AM (#9753126)

Well I apologize for being a consistent jerk, and I certainly appreciate your feedback. I'll try to upgrade the attitude.

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Re:It's all fun and games until someone [XOFF] by mitchty on Sunday June 21, 2015 @04:21PM (#9754853)

I've only used flow control when booting systems like solaris on a serial console or other embedded hardware. Almost never for a tty session. I'm almost always saving output to a file and looking at that. Or using less +F or tmux etc... so yeah.

So my use of never might be hyperbolic, but it is a figure of speech. I can count on one hand with fingers leftover how often I've "needed" flow control. So just like in math, 0.99999 is equivalent functionally to 1 in this case.

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Re:It's all fun and games until someone [XOFF] by dlitz on Sunday June 21, 2015 @09:10AM (#9753275)

I've been aware of XON/XOFF since forever, but I mostly just use my terminal's scrollback buffer.

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