On Sat, 23 Jun 2001 08:49:45 -0400 (EDT), Steve wrote:
> If the 'reset' command doesn't work on your machine,
> try the meat of the RH/SuSE version, 'stty sane; echo -e \\033c'
>
Thanks for the clues, Steve. 'reset' certainly seems to work in
clearing the screen, but it doesn't change the @s back into spaces or
the box-drawing characters back into text that I can read. However, I
discovered this morning that if I get xterm up in X and type
'shutdown -r now' in that, then X shuts down and there's normal text on
the screen while the system is going down. That isn't the case if I come
out of X by ctrl-alt-BS and then type shutdown at the normal prompt.
Anyway - this may all become history soon. I've taken on board your
comments about the age of Slackware 3.5 and acquired Redhat 7.1 to try.
I have another machine to install that on, so I can compare the two side
by side.
> Usually people on alt.os.linux and/or comp.os.linux are pretty
> decent. Depending on your news server you can also find one or
> more which are specific to Slack, for instance, my news server
> carries these:
> alt.os.linux.slackware
> mailing-list.slackware
>
Unfortunately, of course, Arachne doesn't do newsgroups, so I'm a bit
stuffed there. I'll look forward to the luxury of those when I (finally)
get Linux conected via netscape or something.
Thanks again for your help.
All the best,
Gerald.
