orbita wrote: > > hi, > I've been experiencing this problem for quite some time. Whenever I do a > tail (eg. "tail -f abc.txt | grep abc"), and then Ctrl-C to exit the tail, I > can't type in new commands to the command prompt anymore. > > All I could do is close that window and open another cygwin session. > > Can anybody help?
Try typing "reset" or "stty sane" (without the quotes) and pressing Enter. You won't see what you're typing, but after the shell should work again. -- David Rothenberger ---- daver...@acm.org QOTD: "It's hard to tell whether he has an ace up his sleeve or if the ace is missing from his deck altogether." -- Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/ Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple