From owner-freebsd-questions Tue Jun 8 15:56:53 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from wopr.caltech.edu (wopr.caltech.edu [131.215.240.222]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id E021B14C56 for ; Tue, 8 Jun 1999 15:56:51 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from mph@wopr.caltech.edu) Received: (from mph@localhost) by wopr.caltech.edu (8.9.3/8.9.1) id PAA03153; Tue, 8 Jun 1999 15:56:45 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from mph) Date: Tue, 8 Jun 1999 15:56:45 -0700 From: Matthew Hunt To: Laurence Berland Cc: questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Silly question Message-ID: <19990608155645.A94424@wopr.caltech.edu> References: <375D8BD6.181C5B77@confusion.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 0.95.4i In-Reply-To: <375D8BD6.181C5B77@confusion.net>; from Laurence Berland on Tue, Jun 08, 1999 at 05:32:06PM -0400 Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG 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 * UNIX is a lever for the http://www.pobox.com/~mph/ * intellect. -J.R. Mashey To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message