[clug] Command of the Hour

[Duncan Roe]

Yes ^O is exactly rigt - ^N puts tty in alternate character set and ^O in normal
set. "tput sgr0" also works. I usually tyoe "echo ^V^O" - should work with any
shell

Cheers ... Duncan.

On Tue, Nov 18, 2008 at 02:41:54AM -0800, Gary Woodman wrote:
> --- On Mon, 17/11/08, Andrew Janke <a.janke at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> > $ cat /usr/bin/*
> > / ÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿ
> > ÿÿ: ; < ÿÿ> ÿÿ??? ÿÿÿÿÿÿ  ÿÿ?? ???
> > ÿÿ$%&'ÿÿÿÿÿÿ+ÿÿÿÿ./012] ^
> > ÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿ
> > ...
> > Ctrl-C
> > ?????????:·$
>
> Interesting to see such a diverse range of techniques for recovering from this. I seem to get caught a lot, must. use. less. not. cat.
>
> Try ^V^O(return). Works for me (unless I'm in the mc shell).
>
> Gary
>
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