From: qumqats@citrus.SAC.CA.US ( Joel M. Baldwin ) Subject: Re: vt100 emulation, garbaged screen Date: 15 Feb 1993 17:26:41 GMT
In article <1993Feb14.201653.29462@CSD-NewsHost.Stanford.EDU> cwilson@Xenon.Stanford.EDU (Christopher S. Wilson) writes:
>In article <12FEB199317433229@ariel.lerc.nasa.gov> secsu@ariel.lerc.nasa.gov (Ralph O. Clark) writes:
>>Greetings.
>>
>>I was logged in to a remote system and inadvertently sent a binary file
>>to my screen (under Kermit, SLS 0.99pl4). The most immediate result
>>was that, from that point on, that virtual console mapped characters
>>very oddly. My screen was full of box-drawing characters and other
>. . . . .
>I have exactly the same thing happen many times, so I've been looking
>forward to an answer to this. I haven't seen one or found anything in
>the docs, so I started experimenting and found that an ASCII 14 (^N)
>sent to the terminal switches the lower case characters to garbage.
>An ASCII 15 (^O) switches it back. I have an ASCII chart that calls
>^N a ``Shift Out'' and ^O a ``Shift In'', but I don't know how VT100
At the system prompt just hold the control key down, hit the v key,
and then hit the o key.
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