On Fri Jun 25, 2004 at 10:44:30 +1000, David wrote: > >I have a Debian woody box run in console mode only. While I was logged >into another woody box, I did: > >#cat mystery.file > >The mystery file turned out to be a word .doc > >Subsequently, my prompt and anything going to the screen has turned into >gibberish. Even after logging out of the other box I'm still getting >gibberish at the prompt, and can't get rid of the gibberish on that >console, although the others all work fine. I was going to cut and paste >it here, but instead of what i actually see on the screen, I get the >mangled console message reproduced below. Is there any way to restart that >console and get it back? Does anyone know what might have happened? > >Thanks.. > >David.
The word doc has binary in it which equates to control characters, which screw your console. One way to avoid that is to view it with less instead of cat. To unsrew your terminal try the "reset". There is also a key sequence which someone else probably remembers but i forget of the top of my head. Benno -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html
