will trillich wrote: > On Thu, Feb 08, 2001 at 11:18:34AM -0600, Benjamin Pharr wrote: > > Every once in a while I slip up at cat a binary file to the console. (Or > > just forget to give mkisofs the -o flag.) This causes the console to use > > WEIRD characters, just plain gibberish. Is there any way to get rid of > > this without rebooting? Thanks! > > this is a variation on the theme: put control-O into your PROMPT > string to reset your character set after every command: >
what about just typing reset?