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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
by fit2rule 11y ago
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?
- na85 11y agoI 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.
- jacquesm 11y agoI 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?
- fit2rule 11y agoWell I apologize for being a consistent jerk, and I certainly appreciate your feedback. I'll try to upgrade the attitude.
- dlitz 11y agoI've been aware of XON/XOFF since forever, but I mostly just use my terminal's scrollback buffer.
- mitchty 11y agoI'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.