Re: Characters can't be shown correctly on tty

2001-10-08 Thread Colin Watson
On Fri, Oct 05, 2001 at 05:11:56PM -0700, Karsten M. Self wrote: > Try: > >$ reset >$ vi ZZ >$ top q > > ...which should reset your screen. Not all are necessary at all times, > but I've found that a 'reset', brief 'vi' session, and a few screen > refreshes of 'top' will fix things

Re: Characters can't be shown correctly on tty

2001-10-05 Thread Richard Hector
"Karsten M. Self" wrote: > > on Fri, Oct 05, 2001 at 05:25:57PM -0700, Osamu Aoki ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) > wrote: > > As for exploits, original poster talk about, I do not think so. Random > > number contains some accidental ANSI sequence and that is changing font > > assignment or something like t

Re: Characters can't be shown correctly on tty

2001-10-05 Thread Karsten M. Self
on Fri, Oct 05, 2001 at 05:25:57PM -0700, Osamu Aoki ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > On Fri, Oct 05, 2001 at 05:11:56PM -0700, Karsten M. Self wrote: > > Try: > > > >$ reset > >$ vi ZZ > >$ top q > > > > ...which should reset your screen. Not all are necessary at all times, > > but I'v

Re: Characters can't be shown correctly on tty

2001-10-05 Thread Osamu Aoki
On Fri, Oct 05, 2001 at 05:11:56PM -0700, Karsten M. Self wrote: > Try: > >$ reset >$ vi ZZ >$ top q > > ...which should reset your screen. Not all are necessary at all times, > but I've found that a 'reset', brief 'vi' session, and a few screen > refreshes of 'top' will fix things

Re: Characters can't be shown correctly on tty

2001-10-05 Thread Karsten M. Self
on Fri, Oct 05, 2001 at 01:11:20AM +0800, Liu Tao ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > Hi > I typed "cat /dev/random" on tty1, and some strange characters scrolled , > so I pressed Ctrl-c to terminate cat. But after that, characters can't be > shown correctly on tty1, they are shown as strange characters.

Re: Characters can't be shown correctly on tty

2001-10-05 Thread pacmac
Try to do cat /etc/* to solvent the problem :-) On Fri, Oct 05, 2001 at 01:11:20AM +0800, Liu Tao wrote: > Hi > I typed "cat /dev/random" on tty1, and some strange characters scrolled , > so I pressed Ctrl-c to terminate cat. But after that, characters can't be > shown correctly on tty1, they are

Re: Characters can't be shown correctly on tty

2001-10-04 Thread Colin Watson
On Fri, Oct 05, 2001 at 01:11:20AM +0800, Liu Tao wrote: > I typed "cat /dev/random" on tty1, and some strange characters scrolled , > so I pressed Ctrl-c to terminate cat. But after that, characters can't be > shown correctly on tty1, they are shown as strange characters. > Other ttys are normal.

Characters can't be shown correctly on tty

2001-10-04 Thread Liu Tao
Hi I typed "cat /dev/random" on tty1, and some strange characters scrolled , so I pressed Ctrl-c to terminate cat. But after that, characters can't be shown correctly on tty1, they are shown as strange characters. Other ttys are normal. I tried "cat /dev/random" on Konsole, and it doesn't have thi