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

[Mark Komarinski]

On 03/22/2007 11:41 AM, Ben Scott wrote:
> 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.)
I've had this old school fix for many many years that I use out of habit:

echo ^V^O

I always had this thing about running a command called 'reset',
especially if I was root at the time.

-Mark