Re: Fixing the stuffed up terminal

2000-08-07 Thread Richard Lindner
On 6 Aug, Carl Johnson wrote: > I think my solution is even simpler. I added a '^O' to the beginning > of my prompt, so the prompt automatically corrects this type of > problem. There are other types of problems, but this is one less to > worry about. I like that - good suggestion!! -- Ric

Re: Fixing the stuffed up terminal

2000-08-06 Thread William T Wilson
On Mon, 7 Aug 2000, Triggs; Ian wrote: > I have noticed that if I accidently 'more' or 'cat' or whatever a > binary file and the terminal displays unreadable characters, the best > thing to do is to 'more' the file again, keep pressing space until the A "better" way is to use the 'reset' command.

Re: Fixing the stuffed up terminal

2000-08-06 Thread Carl Johnson
"Triggs; Ian" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > I have noticed that if I accidently 'more' or 'cat' or whatever a binary > file and the terminal displays unreadable characters, the best thing to do > is to 'more' the file again, keep pressing space until the more prompt > which says the percentage at