Subject: Re: PINE: Ctrl-S???

From: Paul O Bartlett <[email-masked]>
Date: Mon, 21 Oct 1996 10:12:00 -0400

On Sun, 20 Oct 1996, Sarah L. Lance wrote:

> I have a question regarding a command in PINE.  The command is Ctrl-S. 
> I would sometimes accidentally press it, and then my screen would
> freeze.  I would lose my entire message.  [...]

    Try pressing Ctrl-Q.  I cannot guarantee that that will unfreeze
your screen, but it's worth a try.  Some systems use the Ctrl-S/Ctrl-Q
pair to stop/start communications.  Not all do but some do, and that is
why Pine itself does not use either of these key-combinations for its
own use.  Consequently, it sounds as if your problem may actually be
outside of Pine.

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From: [email-masked] (R. Stewart Ellis)
Date: 21 Oct 1996 12:44:20 GMT

"Sarah L. Lance" <[email-masked]> writes:

 >Hi,

 >freeze.  I would lose my entire message.  I get frustrated when that
 >happens because a 3-page message turns out to be a redo message.  If
 >anyone has any idea of how I can reverse the Ctrl-S command, I would
 >very much appreciate your response.  Thank you.  :^)

If ^S freezes the screen, a ^Q should unfreeze it.  I don't know why you say
you are losing things.  There is a pine setting
"preserve-start-stop-characters" that may need to be changed if you want to
disable this.  I do not mess with that, so I am not sure what turning it off
and on does.  It also has to do with how every computer, modem, or other
communications device in your connection is set.

 >Hope to here from you soon.  :=)

 >Always,

 >Linh

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From: "Sarah L. Lance" <[email-masked]>
Date: Sun, 20 Oct 1996 16:01:43 -0700

Hi,

Always,

Linh

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From: Jason Englander <[email-masked]>
Date: Wed, 23 Oct 1996 14:49:43 -0500 (CDT)

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> very much appreciate your response.  Thank you.  :^)

Go to Pine's setup (then select config) and unset
preserve-start-stop-characters, that should get rid of the problem.  After
that you should get a message at the bottom of the screen saying something
to the effect of "XOFF command received, see setup ...".  For more
information about it, do some of Ed's information research ;-) and hit ?
when you move down to preserve-start-stop-characters.

  Jason

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From: Reginald N Patton <[email-masked]>
Date: Wed, 23 Oct 1996 17:14:21 -0400

> when you move down to preserve-start-stop-characters.

I think ctrl-q will un"freeze" the screen for you.

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