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 proper ones. Some characters are fine though, like the "GNU" part of > > > the login prompt. :) > > [snip] > > > He, I think this is interesting. I haven't tried it myself in Linux, but > > it has been a problem in some snapshots of OpenBSD that I have used, and > > it surfaced on a mailinglist that it's an age-old artifact in UNIX. > > It seems so, particularly as I saw someone undoing this problem with a > key-combination. This person comes from UNIX and not Linux. >
Porbably, at the command prompt, they typed $ echo ^V^O (that's CTRL+v, CTRL+o) That plus $ reset fixes things in every Linux I've seen; most recently, $ reset alone has been enough. John P. -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.mdt.net.au/~john Debian Linux admin & support:technical services