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XON/XOFF

XON and XOFF are control characters used in data transmission. XOFF is used by a receiving device to tell the transmitting device to stop transmitting. When it is all right for the device to recommence, the XON character is sent. With most environments, XOFF is achieved by pressing CTRL S, XON is achieved by pressing CTRL Q. Some Sun computers and Linux / Unix computers actually have a "Stop" key on the keyboard that can be used to stop and continue text on the screen.

Also see: On

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