High ASCII characters at console

2000-12-26 Thread Malcolm Miles
I accidently more-ed a binary file and now everything I type at the console is in high ASCII characters. Is there an easy way to get back my normal console characters? -- Best wishes, Malcolm

Re: Mounting a floppy drive

1999-02-14 Thread Malcolm Miles
On Sat, 13 Feb 1999 22:12:41 -0800 (PST), you wrote: >Try > >mount /dev/fd0u1440 /mnt -t msdos > >or > >mount /dev/fd0h1440 /mnt -t msdos > >And see if that works. Some fd0 drivers do not work for all floppy >drives. I don't know why. Didn't work either. I tried formatting a few disks. They f

Re: Mounting a floppy drive

1999-02-14 Thread Malcolm Miles
Ignore that last message. mtools was already installed. I tried mdir and got the same sort of error messages as below >> end_request: I/O error, dev 02:00, sector 0 mgm On Sun, 14 Feb 1999 05:12:55 +, you wrote: >apt-get install mtools? > >Malcolm Miles wrote: >&g

Re: Mounting a floppy drive

1999-02-14 Thread Malcolm Miles
apt-get: command not found mgm On Sun, 14 Feb 1999 05:12:55 +, you wrote: >apt-get install mtools? > >Malcolm Miles wrote: >> >> On Sat, 13 Feb 1999 20:17:08 PST, you wrote: >> >> >When I tried to mount my floppy drive using: >> >mount

Re: Mounting a floppy drive

1999-02-14 Thread Malcolm Miles
On Sun, 14 Feb 1999 13:09:25 +0800, you wrote: > >try mounting fd0 without specifying filesystem type. IIRC, the filesystem >will be autodetected. Didn't help. Same errors and then it came back with mount: you must specify the filesystem type. >If it is a win95/98 floppy you *may* need to spec

Re: Mounting a floppy drive

1999-02-14 Thread Malcolm Miles
On Sat, 13 Feb 1999 20:17:08 PST, you wrote: >When I tried to mount my floppy drive using: >mount -t msdod /dev/fd0 /a >I got these messages: >end_request: I/O error, dev 02:00, sector 0 >mount: /dev/fd0 is not a valid block device Similar thing here: end_request: I/O error, dev 02:00, sector 0