Bug 70966

Summary:	Pico crashes when pressing C-x C-s
Product:	[Retired] Red Hat Linux	Reporter:	Franky Backeljauw <backelj>
Component:	pine	Assignee:	Mike A. Harris <mharris>
Status:	CLOSED NOTABUG	QA Contact:	Ben Levenson <benl>
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Priority:	medium
Version:	7.3
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Description Franky Backeljauw 2002-08-07 11:51:10 UTC

Description of Problem:  
  
Pico crashes when pressing Control-x followed by Control-s.  This is the 
keystroke used in emacs to save a file. 
  
Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable):  
 
RedHat 7.3 release. 
 
How Reproducible:  
  
Press C-x C-s in pico. 
   
Additional Information:  
 
This behavior occurs in other versions as well.

Comment 1 Mike A. Harris 2002-08-07 22:22:33 UTC

No, it doesn't crash..  What you're doing, is pressing CTRL-S, which
is XOFF flow control.  This causes the terminal to no longer send data.
Press CTRL-Q to re-enable flow control.

Just don't press CTRL-S when running pico or other applications, it is
working as designed.