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Re:It's all fun and games until someone [XOFF] by JadeNB on Sunday June 21, 2015 @10:00AM (#9753455)
> Conversely: I use ^S and ^Q _all the time_. I've got a long-running program that's spewing output to a terminal? ^S and it stops so I can look at it, copy output elsewhere, etc. ^Q and it resumes again seamlessly.

Why not ^Z and `fg`? (I'm sure that there's a subtle or not-so-subtle difference, but I've only ever suspended, never XOFF'd, so I don't know it.)

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Re:It's all fun and games until someone [XOFF] by JoshTriplett on Sunday June 21, 2015 @10:14AM (#9753512)
^Z suspends the current application and returns to the program that ran it (typically the shell), which will then print a prompt. ^S and ^Q leave the output entirely undisturbed and unbroken.
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