From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from scaup.mail.pas.earthlink.net ([207.217.120.49]) by speech.braille.uwo.ca with esmtp (Exim 3.36 #1 (Debian)) id 1BDaSq-0007XB-00 for ; Tue, 13 Apr 2004 22:49:24 -0400 Received: from h-68-166-89-140.chcgilgm.covad.net ([68.166.89.140] helo=linserver.romuald.net.eu.org) by scaup.mail.pas.earthlink.net with esmtp (Exim 3.33 #1) id 1BDaSl-0000R8-00 for speakup@braille.uwo.ca; Tue, 13 Apr 2004 19:49:19 -0700 Received: (qmail 19640 invoked by uid 1023); 14 Apr 2004 02:49:25 -0000 Date: Tue, 13 Apr 2004 21:49:25 -0500 From: Gregory Nowak To: "Speakup is a screen review system for Linux." Message-ID: <20040414024925.GA19626@romuald.net.eu.org> References: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; x-action=pgp-signed; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: User-Agent: Mutt/1.4.2i X-PGP-Key: http://www.romuald.net.eu.org/pubkey.asc Subject: Re: tty in weird character mode X-BeenThere: speakup@braille.uwo.ca X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.4 Precedence: list Reply-To: "Speakup is a screen review system for Linux." List-Id: "Speakup is a screen review system for Linux." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Wed, 14 Apr 2004 02:49:24 -0000 -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 Yup. Type the following 2 lines, without worrying what actually gets displayed as you type: reset stty sane . That should make things usable again. Greg 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." > > > _______________________________________________ > Speakup mailing list > Speakup@braille.uwo.ca > http://speech.braille.uwo.ca/mailman/listinfo/speakup > > > !DSPAM:407ca602196051100069816! > > - -- Free domains: http://www.eu.org/ or mail dns-manager@EU.org -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.2.3 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQFAfKa17s9z/XlyUyARAsy2AJ9tP+dIisx7wr2b6FdRCdyNY1wmTwCgpGMx klnqvFoAvmP+zb8ePyHZnIE= =ettr -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----