From: Kenny Hitt <kenny@hittsjunk.net>
To: "Speakup is a screen review system for Linux." <speakup@braille.uwo.ca>
Subject: Re: tty in weird character mode
Date: Wed, 14 Apr 2004 07:22:47 -0500 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20040414122247.GA25434@blackbox> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.4.58.0404132138220.3318@maranatha.charter.net>
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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Cheryl Homiak
` Gregory Nowak
` Doug Sutherland
` Cheryl Homiak
` David Csercsics
` Kenny Hitt [this message]
` Sound card recommendations? Al Puzzuoli
` tty in weird character mode Garrett Klein
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