From: zlsiial@uts.mcc.ac.uk (A. V. Le Blanc) Subject: Re: Display problems Date: 22 Jul 1992 10:30:08 GMT
In article <711498228.F00025@remote.halcyon.com> Thomas.Mcwilliams@f42.n377.z1.fidonet.org (Thomas Mcwilliams) writes:
:FT>If certain control codes get
:FT> displayed (e.g., if one accidently cats a binary), the virtual console
:FT> gets stuck in alternate character mode. Even setterm -reset -clear
:FT> -default -initialize won't fix it, nor will logging in and out
:
:To get back to normal do this:
:
: echo '\017'
I was wondering: shouldn't this be in the termcap 'rs' entry? That would
make setterm (or at least one of its options) fix things, I think.
-- Owen
LeBlanc@mcc.ac.uk