On Tue, 11 Aug 1998, Christopher Barry wrote: : Hi, : : Every now and then I do a little goof-up that scrambles a virtual : console and I'm sure we all do sometimes but lately I've been doing a : little programming and if I accidentally gib a string argument then it : corrupts the console every single time so I quickly run out of all 6 : consoles and am forced to reboot.
Try the 'reset' command. You won't be able to read it, but it'll work (usually). : Now, there has GOT to be a way to recover a scrambled console, right? : Why isn't there protection for this in the first place? I don't see why : this would ever be desired behavior, unless this property is somehow : essential for 'correctness'? Well, ppp uses a "scrambled" console to set up the link, so it is desired behavior (though not in your case!) Remember, UNIX doesn't do much to protect you from yourself. : Also, if there are any vim users reading this what does ^x ^s do? I : sometimes accidentally type this when I mean to save a file (bad habit : from using ae), and this seems to lock up vim pretty hard. I don't use vim, but I'm pretty sure that ^s and ^q are software flow control characters ... ^s means "stop sending" and ^q means "start sending". If you type a ^s and the screen quits "working", type ^q and all should be well again. (I always thought these two characters did the reverse, but I guess my memory is poor). -- Nathan Norman MidcoNet - 410 South Phillips Avenue - Sioux Falls, SD mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.midco.net finger [EMAIL PROTECTED] for PGP Key: (0xA33B86E9)