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- From: trussell@cwis.unomaha.edu (Tim Russell)
- Subject: Re: linux 0.97 rootimage .1, some problems
- Message-ID: <trussell.715183936@cwis>
- Keywords: linux, mount, compress, 0.97.1
- Sender: news@news.unomaha.edu (UNO Network News Server)
- Organization: University of Nebraska at Omaha
- References: <688@svcs1.UUCP>
- Date: Sun, 30 Aug 1992 14:12:16 GMT
- Lines: 24
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- slix@svcs1.UUCP (Bill Miller) writes:
-
- >Thirdly, it seems that when I (mistakenly :-) send the output of compress
- >to stdout, from then on (in that particular virtual tty) the character set
- >is *permanently* changed. Instead of seeing normal characters when I
- >type, or when the system types, I get all upper 128 PC ascii characters
- >instead. If I login to the other virtual tty's, their character display
- >is unaffected. The problem isn't solved by sync;logout and then a relogin
- >either. This seems really strange.
-
- That's because the Linux console supports being put into an alternate
- character set mode, and the binary characters in your file are triggering
- that. When it happens to me, I type
-
- echo "<^V><ESC>c"
-
- where the two keys in brackets are keypresses, of course. This sends the
- VT100 reset sequence (escape + lowercase c) and gets things back in order.
-
- --
- Tim Russell Omaha, NE trussell@unomaha.edu
- One of the richest men in the world made his billions selling a toy "operating
- system" that is more accurately described as a glorified bootstrap loader.
- -- Phil Karn
-