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On Tue, 28 Oct 97 13:55:48 GMT, Ben Hardy <ephemerae@goth6.or5g.a7u> wrote:
>Greetings fellow protectors of process address space,
>
>I have a linux console question. 
>
>In the event of doing something like catting a binary file and having your
>virtual console covered in junk until you reboot, what should you do to
>return it to a sane, useful state?

Usually the junking of the console that comes from catting a binary, is
because the binary containeda control scring (I'm not sure what it is) that
switches the console into an alternate character set.

To reset it to normal you need to send a ^O (control-O, ascii 15) to the
console. One way to do this is to blind type 'cat' with no arguments
the hit ctrl-O, return, ctrl-D. Cat will echo the ctrl-O you typed back to
the console.

Alternatively with bash (and maybe other shells) you can blind type the
command:
	echo ^O
But to get the ^O in there, you have to press, ctrl-V, _then_ ctrl-O.
The ctrl-V makes the shell accept the ctrl-O literally, rather than as a
line-editing command.


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