Re: Console text scrambled (in a different way :)
re,
Hall Stevenson(hallstevenson@mindspring.com)@Wed, Feb 28, 2001 at 01:32:20PM -0500:
> > If I display a file which contains binary data, often there will
> > be a sequence of characters which the console interprets
> > to 'switch character sets' and then any lower case characters
> > become little boxes, or patches of fuzz, yet numbers and
> > upper case characters are unaffected.
> >
> > I know of no way to fix this, although a little script to output
> > the 'switch back to normal mode' characters would be handy
>
> Type "reset", hit Enter. Don't worry if you can't see what you type...
> use one finger to make sure you spell it right !! ;-)
I remember the times when people where _flashing_ on irc :)
(sending some kind of combination of binary data to render your terminal unreadable).
The easy fix for that was "echo c" that's echo ctrl-v esc-c
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