Re: those problems where the easiest thing to do seems to be to reboot...
On Fri, Jan 19, 2001 at 04:13:44PM +0000, CND OConnor wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I've used linux quite a while now, but every so often I do something to
> my system I can't fix that I know will go away if I reboot. I'm lazy, I
> guess, so I do. I can always make some tea. Its very silly though I'm
> sure I needn't, so can someone suggest what to do when,
>
> 1) you 'cat' a file you shouldn't in the console mode. before you know
> it everything on the commandline becomes an unreadable mess of ascii
> characters you didn't know you had.
'reset' and/or 'echo '<Ctrl-V><Esc>'c'
--zzed
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