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- From: drew+@CS.CMU.EDU (Paul Olbrich)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.sgi
- Subject: Re: How to fix xwsh font weirdness
- Keywords: xwsh fix
- Message-ID: <BzEG34.GB3.2@cs.cmu.edu>
- Date: 17 Dec 92 10:35:28 GMT
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- In article <BzE8s6.5Az.2@cs.cmu.edu>, drew+@CS.CMU.EDU (Paul Olbrich) writes:
- > If you cat a large binary in an xwsh and suddenly
- > you find yourself in some strange unreadable
- > font mode, you can type:
- >
- > echo ^V^O
- >
- > and it'll return you to your normal font. You can flip
- > back into the wacky font by typing:
- >
- > echo ^V^N
- >
- >
- >
- > Drew Olbrich
- > drew@cs.cmu.edu
-
-
- Of course, I'm using tcsh. I don't know offhand how other
- shells will respond to the ^V.
-
- Like this really matters. Bleh.
-
- Drew Olbrich
- drew@cs.cmu.edu
-