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? console gets scrambled, mostly high ascii characters and such?
type reset at the prompt (you'll have to do it blindly, but...) - flip ------------------------------------- [EMAIL PROTECTED]/[EMAIL PROTECTED] -- "Tired of lying in the sunshine, staying home to watch the rain. You are young and life is young, and there is time to kill today And then one day you find, ten years have got behind you No one told you when to run; you missed the starting gun." -- Pink Floyd, Time