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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 "GNU" part of > the login prompt. :) > > I saw someone undoing a situation as such, but forgot how to do it as I > very seldom get bogged like this. > > A reboot would surely fix this, but I dont want to do that. Kill or > HUP'ing the getty doesn't do the job.