Re: those problems where the easiest thing to do seems to be to reboot...
Nicole Zimmerman wrote:
>
> > 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.
>
> try `reset` perhaps. You might not see the characters in correct ascii,
> but it should work. Maybe ctrl+l would work too, but I think reset is a
> better bet. I think there is another way but I can't think of it off hand.
Running the `top' command works well too.
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