You also may try Ctrl-v Ctrl-o and hit enter...

On Sat, 2 May 1998 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:

> Any idea why / how to prevent the text on Virtual Consoles going nuts and 
> being
> replaced with lots of funny garbage characters?
> 
> This happens to me occasionally if I accidentally cat an executable file. But
> today it happened when I mounted an msdos floppy, and tried to do 'ls'. When
> this happens the VC it happens on is useless and the characters are only 
> normal
> again when I reboot. Even when I type exit (which appears all corrputed of
> course), the little pengiun logo on the login screen is all corrupted. :(.
> 
> Any ideas? I really hate having to reboot my computer, it reminds me of
> windoze!
> 
> Thanks!
> Timothy
> 
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