Re: Terminal Corruption
You also may try Ctrl-v Ctrl-o and hit enter...
On Sat, 2 May 1998 hospedales@wow.net wrote:
> Any idea why / how to prevent the text on Virtual Consoles going nuts and being
> replaced with lots of funny garbage characters?
>
> This happens to me occasionally if I accidentally cat an executable file. But
> today it happened when I mounted an msdos floppy, and tried to do 'ls'. When
> this happens the VC it happens on is useless and the characters are only normal
> again when I reboot. Even when I type exit (which appears all corrputed of
> course), the little pengiun logo on the login screen is all corrupted. :(.
>
> Any ideas? I really hate having to reboot my computer, it reminds me of
> windoze!
>
> Thanks!
> Timothy
>
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