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Re: cat'ing a binary does some really funky things with my display



Mark Wright wrote:
> 
> Every once in a while, I will mistakenly 'cat' a binary.  This almost always
> results in my console going haywire.  Now most text appears as graphic
> characters (blocks, arrows, lines - all that extended ascii stuff).  I have
> no idea, short of a re-boot, how to recover my console.  Any idea what's
> happening?

try typing reset

hafi



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