thanks everyone.. $reset
worked fine :) trust a M$ file to cause problems ! On Fri, 25 Jun 2004, DaZZa wrote: > On Fri, 25 Jun 2004, 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? > > One of the control codes in the word doc file has set the terminal into a > weird mode. > > try > > reset > > , or if you're on any other TTY except 0, just kill -HUP the mingetty > process running the TY which is screwed. > > D > -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html
