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• control-S vi. "Stop talking for a second." From the ASCII DC3 or XOFF character (the pronunciation /X-of/ is therefore also used).
  Control-S differs from control-O in that the person is asked to stop talking (perhaps because you are on the phone) but will be allowed to continue when you're ready to listen to him -- as opposed to control-O, which has more of the meaning of "Shut up....
• control-O vi. "Stop talking." From the character used on some operating systems to abort output but allow the program to keep on running.
  Generally means that you are not interested in hearing anything more from that person, at least on that topic...
• control-O: vi. "Stop talking." From the character used on some operating systems to abort output but allow the program to keep on running.
  Generally means that you are not interested in hearing anything more from that person, at least on that topic...
• control-Q vi. "Resume." From the ASCII DC1 or XON character (the pronunciation /X-on/ is therefore also used), used to undo a previous control-S.
• control-Q: vi. "Resume." From the ASCII DC1 or {XON} character (the pronunciation /X-on/ is therefore also used), used to undo a previous {control-S}.
  -- The AI Hackers Dictionary...
• control-C vi. 1. "Stop whatever you are doing." From the interrupt character used on many operating systems to abort a running program.
  Considered silly. 2. interj. Among BSD Unix hackers, the canonical humorous response to "Give me a break!...
• control-C: vi. 1. "Stop whatever you are doing." From the interrupt character used on many operating systems to abort a running program.
  Considered silly. 2. interj. Among BSD UNIX hackers, the canonical humorous response to "Give me a break!...
• ASCII /as'kee/ n. [originally an acronym (American Standard Code for Information Interchange) but now merely conventional] The predominant character set encoding of present-day computers.
  The standard version uses 7 bits for each character, whereas most earlier codes (including early drafts of of ASCII prior to June 1961) used fewer....
• line starve: [MIT] 1. vi. To feed paper through a printer the wrong way by one line (most printers can't do this).
  On a display terminal, to move the cursor up to the previous line of the screen....