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- Path: sparky!uunet!mcsun!uknet!mucs!mccuts!zlsiial
- From: zlsiial@uts.mcc.ac.uk (A. V. Le Blanc)
- Newsgroups: comp.os.linux
- Subject: Re: Display problems
- Message-ID: <5382@mccuts.uts.mcc.ac.uk>
- Date: 22 Jul 92 10:30:08 GMT
- References: <711498228.F00025@remote.halcyon.com>
- Reply-To: LeBlanc@mcc.ac.uk
- Organization: Computing Centre, University of Manchester
- Lines: 15
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- In article <711498228.F00025@remote.halcyon.com> Thomas.Mcwilliams@f42.n377.z1.fidonet.org (Thomas Mcwilliams) writes:
- :FT>If certain control codes get
- :FT> displayed (e.g., if one accidently cats a binary), the virtual console
- :FT> gets stuck in alternate character mode. Even setterm -reset -clear
- :FT> -default -initialize won't fix it, nor will logging in and out
- :
- :To get back to normal do this:
- :
- : echo '\017'
-
- I was wondering: shouldn't this be in the termcap 'rs' entry? That would
- make setterm (or at least one of its options) fix things, I think.
-
- -- Owen
- LeBlanc@mcc.ac.uk
-