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Date:      Tue, 8 Jun 1999 15:56:45 -0700
From:      Matthew Hunt <mph@astro.caltech.edu>
To:        Laurence Berland <stuyman@confusion.net>
Cc:        questions@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: Silly question
Message-ID:  <19990608155645.A94424@wopr.caltech.edu>
In-Reply-To: <375D8BD6.181C5B77@confusion.net>; from Laurence Berland on Tue, Jun 08, 1999 at 05:32:06PM -0400
References:  <375D8BD6.181C5B77@confusion.net>

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On Tue, Jun 08, 1999 at 05:32:06PM -0400, Laurence Berland wrote:

> If my terminal prints lots of silly random stuff instead of real words,
> is there a command I can run to get the terminal back to a sane mode? 
> (This is after having piped some control characters to more)

You can give "reset" a shot.  I find that it isn't always powerful
enough, though.

If your terminal is really an xterm, then you should get good results
by holding down control and pressing the middle mouse button, and
selecting "Do Full Reset".  It will have the side-effect of clearing
the screen.  Most full-screen applications will redraw if you hit
control-L, so that's not usually a problem.

Matt

-- 
Matthew Hunt <mph@astro.caltech.edu> * UNIX is a lever for the
http://www.pobox.com/~mph/           * intellect. -J.R. Mashey


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