On Mon, 12 Nov 2001 09:16, Stuart Cooper wrote: > > Dumping /proc/kcore made a horrible screeching noise that seemed to > > come from my motherboard, maybe the system speaker. Was it trying to > > tell me the stuff was coming too quickly for the I/O devices or > > something like that? > > It's saying "I am a binary file, full of Nulls, Control-G's (bell > character, this is the one that makes the noise) and other evil > characters. Please don't cat me or vi me". > > Many is the Linux/Unix user who has been embarrassed in the office > when their terminal starts beeping loudly and frequently and all the > co-workers start laughing and thinking "must have catted a > binary file". Doing this a few times is a rite of passage for a user > and you are expected to grow out of this habit fairly quickly.
but if you do it and it corrupts the screen so you can't read anything anymore then a 'echo ctrl-v ESC c' (no spaces) will do the trick to reset it. -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ More Info: http://lists.slug.org.au/listinfo/slug
