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 :)
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Seeya,
Paul
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A: Yes.
> Q: Are you sure?
>> A: Because it reverses the logical flow of conversation.
>>> Q: Why is top posting annoying in email?
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