Re: terminal goes funky

2000-07-26 Thread Sven Burgener
On Wed, Jul 26, 2000 at 03:07:23AM +0300, Lehel Bernadt wrote: [snip] Thanks a lot to all for your help / information. Sven -- Windows does *not* have bugs. It just develops random features.

Re: terminal goes funky

2000-07-26 Thread Jaye Inabnit ke6sls
Sven, quickest way is "reset" :) On Tue, 25 Jul 2000, Sven Burgener wrote: > Silly me accidentally cat'ed a binary file, which caused the terminal > (tty1) to go all funky. > > It seems to display things fine, but just with weird characters instead > of proper ones. Some characters are fin

Re: terminal goes funky

2000-07-25 Thread John Pearson
On Tue, Jul 25, 2000 at 10:19:23PM +0200, Sven Burgener wrote > On Tue, Jul 25, 2000 at 10:05:00PM +0200, Morten Liebach wrote: > > On Tue, Jul 25, 2000 at 09:38:07PM +0200, Sven Burgener wrote: > > [snip] > > > > It seems to display things fine, but just with weird characters instead > > > of pr

Re: terminal goes funky

2000-07-25 Thread Lehel Bernadt
On 25-Jul-2000 Sven Burgener wrote: > On Tue, Jul 25, 2000 at 04:38:32PM -0400, Dan Brosemer wrote: >> > It seems to display things fine, but just with weird characters instead >> > of proper ones. Some characters are fine though, like the "GNU" part of >> > the login prompt. :) > >> Press ^V the

Re: terminal goes funky

2000-07-25 Thread Dan Brosemer
On Tue, Jul 25, 2000 at 11:25:20PM +0200, Sven Burgener wrote: > On Tue, Jul 25, 2000 at 04:38:32PM -0400, Dan Brosemer wrote: > > You've just got the system to send a ^O character to the screen which will > > reset it gracefully. > > Yes, but also ^V before the ^O, like you said. > Do you know wh

Re: terminal goes funky

2000-07-25 Thread Sven Burgener
On Tue, Jul 25, 2000 at 04:38:32PM -0400, Dan Brosemer wrote: > > It seems to display things fine, but just with weird characters instead > > of proper ones. Some characters are fine though, like the "GNU" part of > > the login prompt. :) > Press ^V then ^O then ENTER at the prompt. > The system

Re: terminal goes funky

2000-07-25 Thread Dan Brosemer
On Tue, Jul 25, 2000 at 09:38:07PM +0200, Sven Burgener wrote: > Silly me accidentally cat'ed a binary file, which caused the terminal > (tty1) to go all funky. > > It seems to display things fine, but just with weird characters instead > of proper ones. Some characters are fine though, like the

Re: terminal goes funky

2000-07-25 Thread Sven Burgener
On Tue, Jul 25, 2000 at 10:05:00PM +0200, Morten Liebach wrote: > On Tue, Jul 25, 2000 at 09:38:07PM +0200, Sven Burgener wrote: [snip] > > It seems to display things fine, but just with weird characters instead > > of proper ones. Some characters are fine though, like the "GNU" part of > > the l

Re: terminal goes funky

2000-07-25 Thread Gary Hennigan
Morten Liebach <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > On Tue, Jul 25, 2000 at 09:38:07PM +0200, Sven Burgener wrote: > > Silly me accidentally cat'ed a binary file, which caused the terminal > > (tty1) to go all funky. > > > > It seems to display things fine, but just with weird characters instead > > of

Re: terminal goes funky

2000-07-25 Thread Morten Liebach
On Tue, Jul 25, 2000 at 09:38:07PM +0200, Sven Burgener wrote: > Silly me accidentally cat'ed a binary file, which caused the terminal > (tty1) to go all funky. > > It seems to display things fine, but just with weird characters instead > of proper ones. Some characters are fine though, like the

Re: terminal goes funky

2000-07-25 Thread Peter S Galbraith
You can try `reset', but I've also found that running `top' fixes a corrupted display. -- Peter Galbraith, research scientist <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Maurice Lamontagne Institute, Department of Fisheries and Oceans Canada P.O. Box 1000, Mont-Joli Qc, G5H 3Z4 Canada. 418-775-0852 FAX: 775-054