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Re: Virtual Console is garbaged



-> 
-> hi, logout and login again
-> Paul
-> 
-> On Thu, 14 Aug 1997, Shaleh wrote:
-> 
-> > I ran grep and it ended up reading a binary file.  Now my console is
-> > gibberish -- control chars, escape sequences, and non-printable chars. 
-> > I tried kill -HUP on getty, I tried kill on getty -- no dice.  Any
-> > ideas?
-> > 
-> 

logging out and logging back in doesn't necessarily reset the
terminal correctly.  a better solution would be stay logged in,
and then do ctrl-v, ctrl-o, and hit return.
--andy

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