>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. Well have you tried just typing reset at your prompt. That will cause the shell to reset your terminal so that it works correctly.
