From: Scott Moore (samiam@netcom.com)
Date: 06/10/93


From: samiam@netcom.com (Scott Moore)
Subject: Re: fixing video when you cat a binary :-(
Date: Fri, 11 Jun 1993 00:55:38 GMT

vince@victrola.sea.wa.us (Vince Skahan) writes:

>Damn, I wish I could get this thing to 'do as I mean
>not as I say' :-)

>Does anybody have any clue how to go about fixing a VC
>that you messed up by cat'g a binary (other than rebooting) ?

On a side point, while running X it does not seem possible to do this. I tried
catting a couple of binaries to see if I could hang xterm. Nope !
Another argument to just stay in X windows.
                                             [sam]

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