Re: A linux console question

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From: William Edward Webber
Date: Tue, 28 Oct 1997 00:00

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On Tue, 28 Oct 97 13:55:48 GMT, Ben Hardy (ephemerae@goth6.or5g.a7u) wrote:
: 
: 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?
: 
If you're still able to type stuff (even if the stuff you type is echoed
back as garbage), type
 
   reset <RETURN>

and that should, err, well, reset the console.

-- 
William Webber        Multimedia Database Systems, RMIT, Melbourne, Australia
wew@yallara.cs.rmit.edu.au                  Food.  Shelter.  Source code.
  "'This tree is certainly good for nothing,' said Tzu Chi. 'This is why it
  has grown so large.  Ah-ha!  This is the sort of uselessness that sages
  live by.'" --- _The_Book_of_Chuang_Tzu_

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