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Re: A linux console question

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From: Matthew Tippett
Date: Thu, 30 Oct 1997 00:00
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Paul Wilkins wrote:
> 
> 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?
> 
> and last but not least, if your console is stuck showing binary
> characters instead of text, try
> echo ctrl-v  esc-c

or 

echo ctrl-v ctrl-o

Matt
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From: Matthew Tippett <matthew.tippett@dsto.defence.gov.au>
Subject: Re: A linux console question
Date: 1997/10/30
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