On Fri, Apr 26, 2002 at 11:12:59AM +0100, Jenny_Hopkins@toby-churchill.com wrote:

Ted Harding wrote:

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In the console, which is "opened" on boot, I'm not sure that there is a cure if "reset" doesn't work!

reset has done the job.

xs wrote:

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Using less rather than cat can save time too, as it can display binary files in a bearable format.

I'll try and remember this - "cat" was my first ever linux command and old habits die hard!

and xxd is very useful if you actually want to read what the binary file contains!