Re: those problems where the easiest thing to do seems to be to reboot...

[Robert Waldner <Waldner@KPNQwest.at>]

(I don´t have the thread, and no access to the archives right now, so 
 forgive me if I repeat something. Just trying to be helpful...)

>> 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 "eval `resize`", although it seems to be targeted only at xterms it 
often also works when being on a plain console. If your screen is 
garbled enough, you´ll have to type it blind, but that´s usually no 
real problem.

hth,
&rw
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