Re: those problems where the easiest thing to do seems to be to reboot...
more /bin/more
then keep paging till the text clears up and quit works well also
I used to have a prog that just output the magical char that fixes the
console, but i cant find it and dont remember the character.
-Casey
On Fri, 19 Jan 2001, Peter S Galbraith wrote:
>
> 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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