more /bin/more then keep paging till the text clears up and quit works well also I used to have a prog that just output the magical char that fixes the console, but i cant find it and dont remember the character.
-Casey On Fri, 19 Jan 2001, Peter S Galbraith wrote: > > Nicole Zimmerman wrote: > > > > > > 1) you 'cat' a file you shouldn't in the console mode. before you know > > > it everything on the commandline becomes an unreadable mess of ascii > > > characters you didn't know you had. > > > > try `reset` perhaps. You might not see the characters in correct ascii, > > but it should work. Maybe ctrl+l would work too, but I think reset is a > > better bet. I think there is another way but I can't think of it off hand. > > Running the `top' command works well too. > > > -- > To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] > with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED] >
