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I have encountered this for the first time in Ubuntu 13.10.



What is the meaning of this message across the top of the terminal? Is it a warning or a suggestion?



Output has been suspended by pressing Ctrl+S. Press Ctrl+Q to resume.



Unless I press Ctrl+Q, it doesn't give me a prompt to enter.


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In a standard "shell" the CTRL+S and CTRL+Q sequences are used to pause output to the screen. By pressing CTRL+S the output is paused, and CTRL+Q re-enables output.


It was very useful in the days of standard ASCII terminals / green screens which didn't have a nice scroll bar on the edge of the window :)



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