From owner-freebsd-questions Tue May 29 6:45:36 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mta06-svc.ntlworld.com (mta06-svc.ntlworld.com [62.253.162.46]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 56E5737B423 for ; Tue, 29 May 2001 06:45:22 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from greid@FreeBSD.org) Received: from sobek.openirc.co.uk ([62.252.9.217]) by mta06-svc.ntlworld.com (InterMail vM.4.01.02.27 201-229-119-110) with ESMTP id <20010529134521.YVXK285.mta06-svc.ntlworld.com@sobek.openirc.co.uk>; Tue, 29 May 2001 14:45:21 +0100 Date: Tue, 29 May 2001 14:45:19 +0100 (BST) From: George Reid X-Sender: greid@sobek.openirc.co.uk To: David Banning Cc: questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: console type goes weird after program In-Reply-To: <20010528213459.A2024@yahoo.com> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Mon, 28 May 2001, David Banning wrote: > I am running a SCO program which seems to run fine. > When I exit back to the shell my prompt does not behave properly > at the console. > > Each time I hit return there is no line feed. It looks like this; > > bash-2.03$ bash-2.03$ bash-2.03$ This looks like a problem with a program that uses the curses library or a variant thereof. It usually happens when a program terminates without calling endwin() (IIRC, it's been a while since I did anything using curses). In any case, typing 'reset' should reset your terminal to it's normal state. -- +-------------------+---------------------+ | George Reid | FreeBSD Committer | | +44 7740 197460 | greid@FreeBSD.org | +-------------------+---------------------+ To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message