On Thursday 11 February 2010 21:47:33 Neil Bothwick wrote: > On Thu, 11 Feb 2010 20:18:29 +0200, Alan McKinnon wrote: > > Switch to a text console (Ctrl-Alt-Fx) and ls things there, perhaps the > > garbage dumped to the screen in your for simply upset the terminal > > emulation. > > In which case, running reset in the affected terminal should clear it.
Every time I've tried to tell people to do that, they tell me they can't do it because %#!*^ obviously is not a valid command. I've given up explaining :-) -- alan dot mckinnon at gmail dot com
