tty in weird character mode

[Kenny Hitt]

Hi.  Have you tried typing

reset

when the problem happens?  That usually clears it up for me.

Hope this helps.
          Kenny

On Tue, Apr 13, 2004 at 09:43:31PM -0500, Cheryl Homiak wrote:
> The tty problem reminded me that I wanted to ask this. I don't know how to
> explain this technically, but it usually happens when you've accidentally
> put a file through "more' that wasn't really text but didn't give you a
> complaint from more, or if you accidentally use less when you should have
> used zless. Can't think of other incidents where it happens though there
> probably are others. Anyway, even though you can quit the program, what
> appears on your console from then on, whether typing or reading, is not
> intelligible; i don't know if it's converting to binary or another
> character set--I would think maybe binary. Neither logging out (you can
> do it but your loggin prompt and command prompt after you've logged in
> come out in the same characters) or killing
> the tty does any good and while I can use the rest of my system fine, if I
> really want that tty back I eventually have to succumb and reboot. Is there
> a way around this? I hope I've explained it well enough for somebody to
> know what I'm talking about. I suppose I could make it happen and paste
> some of the result here but I'd rather not do it.
> Thanks.
> 
> -- 
> Cheryl
> "Where your treasure is, there will your heart be also."
> 
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