Op 15-01-11 11:23, Werner Almesberger schreef:
> 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])

Or just "reset". You may need ctrl-a ctrl-k first to clear any
characters on the (invisible) line.

I need to do this when aborting a password entry (so character echo is
switched off) or displaying binary data with cat, somehow messing up the
character set.

> (These aren't Ben-specific.)

reset isn't, either.

Thanks,
Bas

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