From: esulzner@cad669.intel.com (Eric Sulzner) Subject: Re: [PROBLEM] Modem disconnect garble screws up my terminal character set Date: Mon, 2 Aug 1993 01:25:21 GMT
In article <CB3puy.9Ip@boulder.parcplace.com> imp@boulder.parcplace.com (Warner Losh) writes:
> In article <1993Aug1.174013.4192@tbucks.com> timothy@tbucks.com writes:
> >Jeff Kopmanis (jeffk@garnet.msen.com) wrote:
> >: line drawing characters (from the PC char set), bullets and such.
> >Hit Control-v, Control-o, then enter. It will say command not found, but
> >reset the terminal.
>
> Or say "echo ^V^O" (it will show up on your screen as "echo ^O"), and
> you won't get the error message... :-)
Great. Will someone please briefly explain why this works? Thanks.
disclaimer -> I am not speasking for Intel.