regaining crashed consoles

[Kirk Reiser]

This is the windows mentality personified.  You almost never have to
reboot your computer.  If you are in telnet and it crashes you can
usually get out of it by doing a control-] which will give you a
telnet> prompt.  Once there you can type quit to exit.  If for some
reason you cannot get the telnet prompt, you can change to another
console and type killall telnet, or whatever the program is named that
you are running.

If your console gets into a fucked up state, that is garbage
characters for your prompt. You can type reset to reset the console
and then stty sane to get your standard options back.

  Kirk

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Kirk Reiser				The Computer Braille Facility
e-mail: kirk at braille.uwo.ca		University of Western Ontario
phone: (519) 661-3061