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 will echo back: > bash: ^O: command not found Yes! That's cool. Thanks. > 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 why? Anyone know why? > Try it, it has worked for me for years (I'm dumb enough to cat a binary file > on a regular basis -- something like once/month :) ). :) Regards Sven