[Bug 301461] Re: gnome terminal displays weird characters after cat manual.txt.gz

2012-07-16 Thread Mark Brannan
For the benefit of anyone else who stumbles upon this bug report when dealing with this common issue, please see: http://www.unixguide.net/linux/faq/06.14.shtml -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu.

[Bug 301461] Re: gnome terminal displays weird characters after cat manual.txt.gz

2008-11-23 Thread SethWoodworth
** Attachment added: Dependencies.txt http://launchpadlibrarian.net/19890166/Dependencies.txt ** Attachment added: ProcMaps.txt http://launchpadlibrarian.net/19890167/ProcMaps.txt ** Attachment added: ProcStatus.txt http://launchpadlibrarian.net/19890168/ProcStatus.txt -- gnome

[Bug 301461] Re: gnome terminal displays weird characters after cat manual.txt.gz

2008-11-23 Thread Quinlan Pfiffer
Thanks for the bug report. The reason it displays weird characters is because that is a gzipped text file. Ti un-gzip, type the following: gunzip manual.txt.gz After this, you can read the file normally. ** Changed in: gnome-terminal (Ubuntu) Status: New = Confirmed -- gnome terminal

[Bug 301461] Re: gnome terminal displays weird characters after cat manual.txt.gz

2008-11-23 Thread Quinlan Pfiffer
Sorry, I didn't read your report thouroghly. Ignore my post. _ -- gnome terminal displays weird characters after cat manual.txt.gz https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/301461 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. -- ubuntu-bugs

Re: [Bug 301461] Re: gnome terminal displays weird characters after cat manual.txt.gz

2008-11-23 Thread SethWoodworth
That's not the issue, I didn't explain that well. The problem is that afterwards everything Else has wrong characters, including my bash prompt. On Sun, Nov 23, 2008 at 5:41 PM, Quinlan Pfiffer [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Thanks for the bug report. The reason it displays weird characters is

[Bug 301461] Re: gnome terminal displays weird characters after cat manual.txt.gz

2008-11-23 Thread Chris Coulson
This is not a bug in gnome-terminal. The problem you experience is because the gzip'd file will contain some bit patterns which look like control characters, which alter the mode of the terminal emulator (as they are supposed to), so I'm closing this bug as invalid ** Changed in: gnome-terminal