Misleading newbie tip [was Re: mutt recipe wanted]
Your newbie tip needs a slight correction:
On Mon, Dec 10, 2001 at 11:17:00PM -0600, will trillich wrote:
>
> --
> DEBIAN NEWBIE TIP #83 from USM Bish <bish@nde.vsnl.net.in>
> :
> GOT GIBBERISH? And wondering what to do next, to clear the
> mess? enter a blank line (making sure you've cleared
> your command-line buffer, since you're seeing gobbledy-gook)
You should press control c to clear the buffer, as you could be for
example logged in as root and typed in rm -r * from the root
directory, and you wouldn't be able to see it because of the
gibberish.
> and then enter
> reset
> which is a symlink to /usr/bin/tset which is a portion of
> "ncurses-bin" package. ("apt-get install ncurses-bin")
> Also see "man tset" for more info.
>
> Also see http://newbieDoc.sourceForge.net/ ...
>
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