Safety Tip: aim caff away from foot before triggering...

Paul Lussier p.lussier at comcast.net
Thu Mar 22 12:30:30 EDT 2007


"Ben Scott" <dragonhawk at gmail.com> writes:

> On 3/22/07, Ted Roche <tedroche at tedroche.com> wrote:
>> Um. I tried a couple of things and just managed to mangle up my shell
>> windows with lines-and-boxes font characters.
>
>   Sounds like you ended up with binary output on a terminal.
>
>   To un-fsck the terminal emulator, issue the command:
>
> 	reset
>
> (One nice thing about that is you can easily type it blind.)

Sometimes I find I have to do this 3 or 4 times because I
inadvertantly hit the up-arrow which results in
  <whatever my last command was>reset

which is almost *never* a command :)
-- 
Seeya,
Paul
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