Date: Wed, 05 Apr 2000 18:36:34 EDT From: "John Daniels" <jmd526@hotmail.com> To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: strange output Message-ID: <20000405223634.15586.qmail@hotmail.com>
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Hi:
I downloaded adobe acrobat reader from the adobe site in tar.gz format. (It
just occurred to me that I should have checked ports ... and I will before I
continue.)
I tried to untar it but forgot to add the "z" option, and of course tar
complained that this was not a tar file, but lots of strange characters from
the binary flew past the screen as it tried to figure this out.
When it had finished, and I had realised my error, I found that when I did
an "ls" command I got the following output:
$ ls
??2p.n??g???xN????????e'?o???1+?d?o
Desktop
FreeBSD
I??x??pyv?^???R?????????????R???????>????sn??N?????b6????\????k7?????f???W7?}???????~??l_??d?6?q?W?
Linux
Mail
flash_linux.tar.gz
linux-ar-405.tar.gz
????65????e{s u:r<??
7=???o???|???r?????*<?D????+?v5????E#jOD{????
??.?j???Rl,?
??????\A=S???6?.?d?(*???g??|5*???Z??5??>???"??$?Cm??|n(??5l6?V??I#???n??P???????}C??Y?,v]???????@K?
I had earlier installed downloaded and installed the shockwave flash
pluggin, and I believe I made the same mistake at that time, but I didn't
get the same strange behavoir.
I am running KDE, so I tried
1. opening a new terminal,
2. logging out of KDE and restarting X/KDE
3. logging out of my account
4. rebooting
None of these changed the behavior.
Other accounts on the system don't seem to be affected.
Something was damaged or reset, but as a newbie I haven't a clue what it is
or how to fix it.
Thanks in advance to anyone who can help.
John
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