For safety, type reset ^J <CR>, which is ^M, might not be recognised. It depends on just how messed up your terminal settings are.
On 26-Apr-2002 Andrew Savory wrote:
On Fri, 26 Apr 2002 Jenny_Hopkins@toby-churchill.com wrote:
I'm constantly opening binary files using cat from the command line by mistake, then after quitting out the console displays all text in weird symbols. Is there anyway to reset the console when this happens?
You'll kick yourself for this one :-)
Type (blindly):
reset
HTH,
Andrew.
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