The 'reset' command should work.

Matthew.

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.


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