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Date:      Tue, 23 Sep 2008 17:09:38 -0700
From:      Chris St Denis <chris@smartt.com>
To:        "freebsd-questions@freebsd.org" <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org>
Subject:   Fix corrupted terminal output
Message-ID:  <48D98542.6090007@smartt.com>

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Occasionally, I accidentially cat a binary file or a directory casing 
the terminal output to be corrupted with text looking like (don't know 
if this will make it through the mail cleanly)

    E???? ??? ?? ?????????.
    ????2#


To fix this normally I just close the window and open a new ssh 
connection, but I am wondering if there is a more clean way to do this. 
I've tried reset(1), but it doesn't seem to help any.



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