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Re: displaying binary files



On Sat, Aug 05, 2000 at 01:09:12AM +0200, Sven Burgener wrote:
> On Fri, Aug 04, 2000 at 10:46:31PM +0000, john smith wrote:
> > Greetings,
> 
> Hello
> 
> > 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.
> 
> "reset", as has been suggested to me in an older thread on this list. It's 
> the easist method.
> 
> The other method of un-fsck'ing the terminal is by typing 'Ctrl-V' followed 
> by 'Ctrl-O' and then hitting Enter.

With "top" being another good general un-munger.  Hitting the spacebar a
few times while it's running seems to speed things up.

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