Question: Every once in a while on a computer I'm ssh'd into, I will accidentally type "cat largefile.txt" and my screen will start rushing with text for the next 10 minutes. I'm always working in a screen session, so my current solution is to just log out and then log back in, and since it can go 100X faster when I'm logged out, it'll finish in the short time it takes me to type my password in again.

Is there a better way? Either involving the fact I'm in a screen session? Or a way to do this within SSH?

**What doesn't work:**

* detaching from the screen
session (doesn't respond until file is
done outputting)
* trying command to move to a
different window in the screen
session (also doesn't respond)
* typing
ctrl+C to kill cat command (also
doesn't respond, probably because the command is done and the buffers just have to catch up)

Answer: 
If you're using Bash, try `Ctrl`-`z` `kill %` `Enter`

What shell are you using?

(`Ctrl`-`c` works for me, by the way.)
If you start a new `screen` window via `^A ^C`, you will I think be able to "dodge" the oncoming buffer without having to logout & log back in again. It seems that the bottleneck is transmission of the buffer characters to your local terminal; switching to another window should alleviate the need for this effort. Not exactly a miracle cure, but it could save you some time.