>
> (I don´t have the thread, and no access to the archives right now, so
> forgive me if I repeat something. Just trying to be helpful...)
>
> >> 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
> >>
(I don´t have the thread, and no access to the archives right now, so
forgive me if I repeat something. Just trying to be helpful...)
>> 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 yo
On Fri, 19 Jan 2001, CND OConnor wrote:
>Hi,
>
>I've used linux quite a while now, but every so often I do something to
>my system I can't fix that I know will go away if I reboot. I'm lazy, I
>guess, so I do. I can always make some tea. Its very silly though I'm
>sure I needn't, so can someone su
On Fri, 19 Jan 2001, CND OConnor 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.
'reset' will cure this. That's the command 'reset', not reset the system
:
On Fri, Jan 19, 2001 at 04:13:44PM +, CND OConnor wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I've used linux quite a while now, but every so often I do something to
> my system I can't fix that I know will go away if I reboot. I'm lazy, I
> guess, so I do. I can always make some tea.
I find it hard to be sympathetic
CND OConnor wrote:
>
> Hi,
>
> I've used linux quite a while now, but every so often I do something to
> my system I can't fix that I know will go away if I reboot. I'm lazy, I
> guess, so I do. I can always make some tea. Its very silly though I'm
> sure I needn't, so can someone suggest what to
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:
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
On Fri, Jan 19, 2001 at 04:13:44PM +, CND OConnor wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I've used linux quite a while now, but every so often I do something to
> my system I can't fix that I know will go away if I reboot. I'm lazy, I
> guess, so I do. I can always make some tea. Its very silly though I'm
> sure I
> 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
On Fri, 19 Jan 2001, CND OConnor wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I've used linux quite a while now, but every so often I do something to
> my system I can't fix that I know will go away if I reboot. I'm lazy, I
> guess, so I do. I can always make some tea. Its very silly though I'm
> sure I needn't, so can some
Hi,
I've used linux quite a while now, but every so often I do something to
my system I can't fix that I know will go away if I reboot. I'm lazy, I
guess, so I do. I can always make some tea. Its very silly though I'm
sure I needn't, so can someone suggest what to do when,
1) you 'cat' a file you
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