Control A hangs an SSH session w/Putty? 1

[jouell]

Hi All

*Sometimes* when I am using bash and go to the end of a long line and wish to go back to beginning of line with "control a" my SSH session hangs. Has anyone experienced this?

I use putty on Windows XP connecting to a Linux Ubuntu server
w/OpenSSH_4.7p1 w/bash 3.1.17(but this has plagued my for some time before as well)

Thanks
-jouell

 

[Annihilannic]

Are you sure you're not hitting Ctrl-S by accident? Try hitting Ctrl-Q to resume it... Ctrl-S and Ctrl-Q are stop/start flow control characters, useful in the days when terminals ran at 1200 bps for example, because you could pause screen output and then resume it again (who needs more!).

Annihilannic.

 

[jouell]

Annihilannic


I think you nailed it!! That resolved the issue.
Wow - would never have thought of that!


Thank you very much !!

-jouell