On 2001-02-10 10:51 +0100, will trillich <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> 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: > > # bash > set PS1="^V^O whatever> " Huh? Do you mean "export" instead of "set"? But the exported line displays verbatim here? (potato)
^V^O whatever> > # csh > setenv prompt="^V^O something> " > > the ^V tells your command shell 'the next character is verbatim, > don't do whatever you normally would with it' and the ^O is a > standard 'reset the display character set' for ansi-like terminal > emulators. > > there's probably a sane modular/universal way of doing this... Andre Berger [EMAIL PROTECTED]
