[fpc-pascal] Pause Key
Dennis Lee Bieber
wlfraed at ix.netcom.com
Sat Apr 15 18:25:29 CEST 2023
On Sat, 15 Apr 2023 14:23:12 +0300, Nikolay Nikolov via fpc-pascal
<fpc-pascal at lists.freepascal.org> declaimed
the following:
>Actually, the Linux console (but not X11!) uses Scroll Lock to pause the
>console output, pretty much the same way DOS and BIOS used the Pause
>key. Why didn't Linus Torvalds use the Pause key is beyond me.
>
Why didn't either use the long established X-on/X-off <ctrl-q>/<ctrl-s>
convention?
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