From owner-freebsd-questions Tue Jun 8 17:29:52 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from smtp2.vnet.net (smtp2.vnet.net [166.82.1.32]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id B6DA01584D for ; Tue, 8 Jun 1999 17:29:44 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from rivers@dignus.com) Received: from dignus.com (ponds.vnet.net [166.82.177.48]) by smtp2.vnet.net (8.9.1a/8.9.1) with ESMTP id UAA17240; Tue, 8 Jun 1999 20:30:26 -0400 (EDT) Received: from lakes.dignus.com (lakes.dignus.com [10.0.0.3]) by dignus.com (8.9.2/8.8.5) with ESMTP id UAA19443; Tue, 8 Jun 1999 20:29:40 -0400 (EDT) Received: (from rivers@localhost) by lakes.dignus.com (8.9.2/8.6.9) id UAA10097; Tue, 8 Jun 1999 20:29:39 -0400 (EDT) Date: Tue, 8 Jun 1999 20:29:39 -0400 (EDT) From: Thomas David Rivers Message-Id: <199906090029.UAA10097@lakes.dignus.com> To: questions@FreeBSD.ORG, stuyman@confusion.net Subject: Re: Silly question In-Reply-To: <375D8BD6.181C5B77@confusion.net> Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG > 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) > -- > Laurence Berland, Stuyvesant HS Debate From the stty man page: sane Resets all modes to reasonable values for interactive termi- nal use. Try entering: stty sane If you terminal is in a really bad way - you won't be able to see what your typing, and you may have to send a cntrl-J or some other character to actually enter the command. - Dave Rivers - To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message