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Re: My terminal is in a weird state



On Wed, Jul 21, 1999 at 12:25:40PM -0500, Mark Wright wrote:
> I just managed to completely hose my virtual terminal display.  It seems
> that non-alpha-numeric characters have been replaced with ascii > 127
> characters.  I.e. the '-' becomes the upside down '!'.  I've tried 'reset',
> but that doesn't help.  All of my virtual terminals are hosed.  For now I
> can telnet in, but eventually I'd like to be able to work at the machine
> itself, and I'd like to avoid rebooting if I can.  The problem started after
> I droped out of X, after installing Blackbox 5.  Any ideas on how to fix the
> problem?

Try, at a prompt (bash, I assume... not sure if this will work for other
prompts) pressing CTRL-V, CTRL-O, ENTER.

HTH

-Dano

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