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Article #54415Re: A linux console question
From: Paul Wilkins
Date: Wed, 29 Oct 1997 00:00
Date: Wed, 29 Oct 1997 00:00
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David Robley wrote: > > In article <633d3a$osr$1@news.mel.aone.net.au>, Ben Hardy (aka > ephemerae@goth6.or5g.a7u) wrote... > > > >Greetings fellow protectors of process address space, > > > >I have a linux console question. > > > >In the event of doing something like catting a binary file and having your > >virtual console covered in junk until you reboot, what should you do to > >return it to a sane, useful state? > > Sane being the operative word; try typing the following command blind at > whatever you get for a prompt > > stty sane > > Then if you have any special stty settings, you will have to restore them if > you need them for the rest of that login session. > and last but not least, if your console is stuck showing binary characters instead of text, try echo ctrl-v esc-c Paul
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X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: 102983,c607a1173a3e837c X-Google-Attributes: gid102983,public From: Paul Wilkins <paulw@tmpw.com.au> Subject: Re: A linux console question Date: 1997/10/29 Message-ID: <345676F5.574E9248@tmpw.com.au> X-Deja-AN: 285639537 References: <633d3a$osr$1@news.mel.aone.net.au> <633set$1i7m@baggins.cc.flinders.edu.au> Organization: TMP Worldwide Newsgroups: aus.computers.linux