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Re: scrambled chars on tty



On Sun, Aug 13, 2000 at 12:08:42PM +0700, Umum Wijoyo wrote:
> Hi...
> 
> I'd just like to ask:
> Why do several of my tty-s display scrambled characters?
> I can't login using them; if I do, I also get a scrambled shell prompt.
> What's happening?

 - "reset" usually does.
 - Running "top" (and hitting <space> several times) may clear what reset
   doesn't.
 - Running "vi" may return your cursor if it's vanished.

Don't ask me why, it just works that way.

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