this is something that's been bugging me for a long time so i hope someone can help me out. today i did a $ tail /var/yp/bobturf/passwd.byname and afterwards all the characters on the screen became unreadable like it had changed to some other kinda term type or something. this happens a fair bit when i try to view certain types of files in certain ways. it doesn't seem to be just my computer either: i've experienced it many times on various debian machines i've installed. it's particularly annoying because after this happens the virtual terminal is unuseable until a reboot. commands still execute correctly, it's just unreadable. is there any way to get around this when it happens and what is the reason it happens anyway?
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