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Subject: Re: Fix corrupted terminal output
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Try this one:
perl -e 'print "\x0f"'

----- Original Message -----
From: Chris St Denis <chris@smartt.com>
Date: Tuesday, September 23, 2008 5:09 pm
Subject: Fix corrupted terminal output

> 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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