Hello,
Tnx to Dale and Tomi.
'reset' was my friend and dind't know it lived so close to me :-)
The subsequent question is, now that i know how to restore my terminal
how can i keep it in a usable state and chat through xfbbC (eg. =f1cay
command).
Actually, AS SOON AS i start a chat session, the terminal gets corrupted
and even if i don't see what i type, the station i've contacted receives
everything in readable form.
So the problem is the FBB chat function is still unusable from the xfbbC
client. It can be quite annoying when you work directly on the localhost
and can't connect xfbbd but with xfbbC !
Anyway tnx a lot for the tip... my uptime will keep inceasing :-)
Alex.
Tomi Manninen OH2BNS wrote:
>
> On Tue, 2 Nov 1999, Alexandre Fornieles wrote:
>
> > 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.
>
> Try typing "reset" when you get back to the shell prompt and see if that
> helps.
>
> The problem is possibly that you receive the "switch to alternate
> character set" -character. That happens often here when one reads a packet
> bbs message written with the DOS character set (IBM codepage 437) and
> someone or something has stripped the 8th bit. The "�" (o-diaresis)
> character then becomes the switch character... I wish people would start
> to use ISO character sets on packet too.
>
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