a quick linux tip

[Darragh]

Hello,
talking of things going wrong, does any one know how to pass the exit
command to another console?  it would be a handy thing to know about...

Darragh
----- Original Message -----
From: "Tyler Spivey" <tspivey8 at telus.net>
To: <speakup at braille.uwo.ca>
Sent: Thursday, August 22, 2002 8:16 PM
Subject: a quick linux tip


> well, i decided to contribute my .02 to here, here goes:
> on most linux systems, maybe some other unix systems,
> there is a command called reset.
> if your terminal gets messed up (o echoing of commands, etc)
> or wierd things appear (hard to explain, but really odd things instead of
a shell prompt
> for example), you can type reset at a shell prompt.
> that usually fixes the problem if it's a terminal issue.
> i don't know if this hapens on the linux console, but it happens to me on
my serial terminal.
>
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