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Date:      Tue, 30 Apr 2002 17:40:57 +0200
From:      Christoph Kukulies <kuku@accms33.physik.RWTH-Aachen.DE>
To:        Terry Lambert <tlambert2@mindspring.com>
Cc:        ANdrei <andrei@abc.ro>, FS@FreeBSD.ORG, bugs@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: xterm & directory cat
Message-ID:  <20020430174057.A24695@gilberto.physik.rwth-aachen.de>
In-Reply-To: <3CCEB71D.1AD1F911@mindspring.com>; from tlambert2@mindspring.com on Tue, Apr 30, 2002 at 08:24:13AM -0700
References:  <3CCE8982.6A915F2B@abc.ro> <3CCEB71D.1AD1F911@mindspring.com>

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On Tue, Apr 30, 2002 at 08:24:13AM -0700, Terry Lambert wrote:
> ANdrei wrote:
> > and, if this
> > is intended (for whatever purpose, but i can't think of any
> > reasonable...), maybe others can verify that this crashes your xterm, if
> > you run this command form a xterm under X... actually, it changes your
> > character set (or whatever, i'm not much into how this works), but the
> > effect is that you can't use your terminal any more (in a normal way :)
> 
> Try cat'ing /bin/ls.
> 
> It's not crashing your xterm, by the way, it's just sending it an
> escape sequence that locks it up.
> 
> 
> > hope i'm not missing smtg, and this really s a bug, and i'm posting to
> > the right lists...
> > feedback is appreciated, but please cc me, cause i'm not subscribed...
> 
> The right list would have been -questions.
> 
> After your xterm is "crashed", use control-right-mouse-button

Pardon Sir, control-middle-mouse-button :-)

> "full reset".  Your xterm will "uncrash".
> 
> -- Terry
-- 
Chris Christoph P. U. Kukulies kukulies@rwth-aachen.de

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