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

terminal goes funky

2000-07-25 Thread Sven Burgener
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 "GNU" part of the login prompt. :) I saw someone undoing a situation as