Re: cat'ing a binary does some really funky things with my display

1999-06-11 Thread Colin Marquardt
* Mark Wright <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Every once in a while, I will mistakenly 'cat' a binary. This almost always > results in my console going haywire. Now most text appears as graphic Okay, you got answers about 'reset' (which is also Ctrl+L I believe), but maybe you really want to do a

Re: cat'ing a binary does some really funky things with my display

1999-06-09 Thread Brad
On Wed, 9 Jun 1999, Mark Wright wrote: > Every once in a while, I will mistakenly 'cat' a binary. This almost always > results in my console going haywire. Now most text appears as graphic > characters (blocks, arrows, lines - all that extended ascii stuff). I have > no idea, short of a re-boot

Re: cat'ing a binary does some really funky things with my display

1999-06-09 Thread Lazar Fleysher
> Every once in a while, I will mistakenly 'cat' a binary. This almost always > results in my console going haywire. Now most text appears as graphic > characters (blocks, arrows, lines - all that extended ascii stuff). I have > no idea, short of a re-boot, how to recover my console. Any idea

Re: cat'ing a binary does some really funky things with my display

1999-06-09 Thread Chris Flipse
On Wed, Jun 09, 1999 at 05:33:22PM -0500, Mark Wright wrote: Every once in a while, I will mistakenly 'cat' a binary. This almost always results in my console going haywire. Now most text appears as graphic characters (blocks, arrows, lines - all that extended ascii stuff). I have no ide

Re: cat'ing a binary does some really funky things with my display

1999-06-09 Thread Hartmut Figge
Mark Wright wrote: > > Every once in a while, I will mistakenly 'cat' a binary. This almost always > results in my console going haywire. Now most text appears as graphic > characters (blocks, arrows, lines - all that extended ascii stuff). I have > no idea, short of a re-boot, how to recover m

Re: cat'ing a binary does some really funky things with my display

1999-06-09 Thread Alvis W. Tabner III
On Wed, Jun 09, 1999 at 05:33:22PM -0500, Mark Wright wrote: > Every once in a while, I will mistakenly 'cat' a binary. This almost always > results in my console going haywire. Now most text appears as graphic > characters (blocks, arrows, lines - all that extended ascii stuff). I have > no ide

cat'ing a binary does some really funky things with my display

1999-06-09 Thread Mark Wright
Every once in a while, I will mistakenly 'cat' a binary. This almost always results in my console going haywire. Now most text appears as graphic characters (blocks, arrows, lines - all that extended ascii stuff). I have no idea, short of a re-boot, how to recover my console. Any idea what's ha