On Tue, 2 Nov 1999, Alexandre Fornieles wrote:
> Hello,
>
> I'm using xfbbd 7.01d with its associated xfbbC client under a Debian
> 2.1, 2.2.13 kernel.
>
> I'm experiencing a problem with xfbbC that i can reproduce whenever i
> want.
>
> When i start a chat with a user connected to FBB, with '=F1CAY', the
> concole gets completely corrupted. Characters become unreadable and it
> remains in this state even when leaving xfbbC and logging out from that
> console. I mean, there are characters, but they're not displayed as
> normal letters but as strange symbols that are mixed with a few readable
> normal letters.
>
> It just remains unusable and haven't found yet how to restore it until i
> reboot the machine which does not happen so often.
>
> Another example happened this morning. I've been logging the activity on
> the DxNet cluster through an internal connection with 'call' utility. I
> appended this file to a message i typed on FBB console with xfbbC. When
> i wanted to review this message before sending it, as soon as the
> appended file started to be displayed, the terminal got corrupted as
> i've just described.
>
> I suspect something related with non printable characters such as ^G at
> the end of dx spots lines.
>
> My /etc/inputrc (i don't use per user ~/.inputrc files) only containes
> these 2 lines :
>
> set input-meta on
> set output-meta on
>
> This problem also happens when remotely connecting with xfbbC from an
> xterm console.
>
>
> Does anyone know which setting i could alter not to have my terminal
> corrupted.
>
You are correct in the fact that it is a non printable character. I
started seeing this several years ago and it still happens today. It
started even before there was a linux version of fbb back when I was using
jnos. If you simply do a cat on a binary file it can corrupt the console
in this manner. To recover from it ( without shutting down the machine )
type reset and hit the enter key. You will not see the correct letters
due to the console being corrupt. I usually hit the enter key before
typing reset due to the fact that you can not see what was on the screen
prior to typing.
Hope this helps,
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