This one time, at band camp, Michael Covi wrote:
>but if you do it and it corrupts the screen so you can't read anything 
>anymore then a 'echo ctrl-v ESC c' (no spaces) will do the trick to reset it.

The characters 016 and 017 are responsible for screwing up terminal
character sets in most binaries, you can get back by running the command
'printf \017' at your shell prompt if you can identify it, you'd also better
be good at typing blind.

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