On Sat, Nov 10, 2001 at 11:33:08AM -0800, Laurent de Segur wrote: > Hi, > > I recently noticed that cat'ing a bin file in the terminal will render this > terminal unusable. Here is a short reproducible test case : > > $cat /sbin/mkfs.ext2 > > Garbage is populating the output (which is ok in case of non-ascii chars), > but when it's done, the label before the prompt sign and everything typed is > just garbage too. I run 2.4.15 but I've seen this on prior 2.4.x builts.
you have obviously never used a unix system before. -- Ethan Benson http://www.alaska.net/~erbenson/
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