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You mean CTRL+ESH

I believe he did this in the movie "The Hunt-and-Peck for Red October".

some of us cmd-s, but point taken

"Command","Control" ... aye, aye Captain.

Command, Control, Conquer...

The second trilogy after Embrace, Extinguish, Extend

Soon on your local library!!

Why would he send XOFF to his terminal to when he wanted to s(h)ave...

The joke is Sean Connery would pronounce "save" as "shave".

And the follow-up joke is that Ctrl-s in a terminal emulator doesn't save anything but instead sends XOFF, which temporarily blocks further output.

I'm going to control-q this thread before it goes any further.

:w