On Wed, Jun 09, 1999 at 05:33:22PM -0500, Mark Wright wrote:
> Every once in a while, I will mistakenly 'cat' a binary.  This almost always
> results in my console going haywire.  Now most text appears as graphic
> characters (blocks, arrows, lines - all that extended ascii stuff).  I have
> no idea, short of a re-boot, how to recover my console.  Any idea what's
> happening?

Typing 'reset' will re-initialize the terminal you are on, and fix this, so you
don't have to reboot. :-)

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> Mark.
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