Jane Andreas wrote:
> and I was returned to a now useless shell prompt

Could this have been a case where  stty sane  could have restored sanity ?
(stty sane [Enter] or sometimes stty sane [Ctrl+J])

Another useful command when a terminal has switched to line-drawing
characters is  echo ^O  (echo [Ctrl-V] [Ctrl-O] [Enter])

(These aren't Ben-specific.)

- Werner

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