displaying binary files

["john smith" <inquirer23@hotmail.com>]

Greetings,

 In mandrake, when you want to see a file and it's in binary form..it warns 
you about it and asks if you still want to see it. but in debian, it just 
automatically shows it then you can no longer read anything on that console 
and thus rendering that console useless until you reboot. two questions:

1. if the console is "trashed" already with displaying binary..is there a 
way to make it recover w/o rebooting? logging out of the console doesn't 
seem to work.
2. how do I make debian ask/warn first before displaying a binary file?

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