Re: cat'ing a binary does some really funky things with my display
On Wed, Jun 09, 1999 at 05:33:22PM -0500, 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?
console gets scrambled, mostly high ascii characters and such?
type reset at the prompt (you'll have to do it blindly, but...)
- flip
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