Chris,
well, it helped jumble up the funny critters. <s> The only thing that
works so far is shutdown....
Hank
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-----Original Message-----
From: Ronn Pimentel [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Wednesday, August 12, 1998 10:12 AM
To: Christopher Barry; debian-user@lists.debian.org
Subject: Re: Nuking damned scrambled consoles.
On Tue, Aug 11, 1998 at 12:23:22PM -0700, Christopher Barry wrote:
> Hi,
>
> Every now and then I do a little goof-up that scrambles a virtual
> console and I'm sure we all do sometimes but lately I've been doing a
> little programming and if I accidentally gib a string argument then it
> corrupts the console every single time so I quickly run out of all 6
> consoles and am forced to reboot.
>
The way that I get ride of a scrambled console.
1. Try typing "reset"
2. Try typing "clear"
3. Try running "top" This always seems to work. don't know why but it
does.
.ronn
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