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 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. > > Thanks > Sven > > > -- > Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] < /dev/null -- Jaye:-} M.J. Inabnit, KE6SLS e-mail [EMAIL PROTECTED] 707-442-6579 h/m 707-441-7096 p http://www.qsl.net/ke6sls ICQ# 12741145 This mail composed with kmail on kde on X on linux warped by debian If it's stupid, but works, it ain't stupid.