After doing reset, I also type "stty sane" to restore things to how they should be. Greg On Thu, Aug 22, 2002 at 08:16:02PM +0000, Tyler Spivey wrote: > 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. > > _______________________________________________ > Speakup mailing list > Speakup at braille.uwo.ca > http://speech.braille.uwo.ca/mailman/listinfo/speakup
