On Sat, Jan 15, 2000 at 12:02:41AM +0800, Robert Marlow wrote: > and afterwards all the characters on the screen became unreadable like it [...] > after this happens the virtual terminal is unuseable until a reboot. commands > still execute correctly, it's just unreadable. is there any way to get around > this when it happens and what is the reason it happens anyway? just type "reset" to reinitialize your terminal. Jan