On Tue, Jul 25, 2000 at 09:38:07PM +0200, Sven Burgener wrote: > Silly me accidentally cat'ed a binary file, which caused the terminal > (tty1) to go all funky. > > It seems to display things fine, but just with weird characters instead > of proper ones. Some characters are fine though, like the "GNU" part of > the login prompt. :) > > I saw someone undoing a situation as such, but forgot how to do it as I > very seldom get bogged like this. > > A reboot would surely fix this, but I dont want to do that. Kill or > HUP'ing the getty doesn't do the job. Press ^V then ^O then ENTER at the prompt. The system will echo back: bash: ^O: command not found You've just got the system to send a ^O character to the screen which will reset it gracefully. Try it, it has worked for me for years (I'm dumb enough to cat a binary file on a regular basis -- something like once/month :) ). HTH -Dan -- "... the most serious problems in the Internet have been caused by unenvisaged mechanisms triggered by low-probability events; mere human malice would never have taken so devious a course!" - RFC 1122 section 1.2.2
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