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Article #54431Re: A linux console question
From: Matthew Tippett
Date: Thu, 30 Oct 1997 00:00
Date: Thu, 30 Oct 1997 00:00
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Paul Wilkins wrote: > > David Robley wrote: > > > > In article <633d3a$osr$1@news.mel.aone.net.au>, Ben Hardy (aka > > ephemerae@goth6.or5g.a7u) wrote... > > > > > >Greetings fellow protectors of process address space, > > > > > >I have a linux console question. > > > > > >In the event of doing something like catting a binary file and having your > > >virtual console covered in junk until you reboot, what should you do to > > >return it to a sane, useful state? > > and last but not least, if your console is stuck showing binary > characters instead of text, try > echo ctrl-v esc-c or echo ctrl-v ctrl-o Matt
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X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: 102983,c607a1173a3e837c X-Google-Attributes: gid102983,public From: Matthew Tippett <matthew.tippett@dsto.defence.gov.au> Subject: Re: A linux console question Date: 1997/10/30 Message-ID: <3457C553.49F1F265@dsto.defence.gov.au> X-Deja-AN: 286181386 References: <633d3a$osr$1@news.mel.aone.net.au> <633set$1i7m@baggins.cc.flinders.edu.au> <345676F5.574E9248@tmpw.com.au> To: Paul Wilkins <paulw@tmpw.com.au> Organization: ITD/DSTO Newsgroups: aus.computers.linux