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- From: richard@stat.tamu.edu (richard henderson)
- Subject: Re: Scrambled fonts anyone?
- Message-ID: <richard.716044276@stat.tamu.edu>
- Keywords: pcomm, fonts
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- Organization: Texas A&M University, College Station
- References: <1992Sep9.015006.26428@umr.edu> <q+snt5b.harp@netcom.com>
- Date: Wed, 9 Sep 1992 13:11:16 GMT
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- harp@netcom.com (Gregory O. Harp) writes:
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- >dminer@mcs213f.cs.umr.edu (Dan Miner) writes:
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- >>I used to reboot, but it has been getting worst. Anyway, to
- >>stop or restore the font? (Plain text)
-
- >You're going to think I'm nuts, but try 'cat /bin/ls'. I'm using the
- >ls from the MCC-Interim 0.97pl2 distribution, and it happens to
- >contain the right sequence of codes to reset the console.
-
- >How did I discover this? Don't ask.
-
- Something a little less drastic is to type "echo ^V^O" or "cat"
- followed by a control O.
-
- >Suggestion to the person who wrote/maintains the 'setterm' program:
- >Please add such a reset feature to your program. Perhaps it already
- >has one, but since I don't have a man page for it (nor can I find one)
- >I haven't found it. 'setterm -reset' and 'setterm -initialize' don't
- >solve the problem.
-
- I agree that this is the best solution, though.
-
- richard~
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