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Re: A linux console question

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From: Paul Wilkins
Date: Wed, 29 Oct 1997 00:00
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David Robley wrote:
> 
> In article <633d3a$osr$1@news.mel.aone.net.au>, Ben Hardy (aka
> 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?
> 
> Sane being the operative word; try typing the following command blind at
> whatever you get for a prompt
> 
> stty sane
> 
> Then if you have any special stty settings, you will have to restore them if
> you need them for the rest of that login session.
> 

and last but not least, if your console is stuck showing binary
characters instead of text, try
echo ctrl-v  esc-c

Paul
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From: Paul Wilkins <paulw@tmpw.com.au>
Subject: Re: A linux console question
Date: 1997/10/29
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