On Tue, Jul 25, 2000 at 10:05:00PM +0200, Morten Liebach wrote: > On Tue, Jul 25, 2000 at 09:38:07PM +0200, Sven Burgener wrote:
[snip] > > It seems to display things fine, but just with weird characters instead > > of proper ones. Some characters are fine though, like the "GNU" part of > > the login prompt. :) [snip] > He, I think this is interesting. I haven't tried it myself in Linux, but > it has been a problem in some snapshots of OpenBSD that I have used, and > it surfaced on a mailinglist that it's an age-old artifact in UNIX. It seems so, particularly as I saw someone undoing this problem with a key-combination. This person comes from UNIX and not Linux. When I see him again, I'll ask him what the key-combination is so I can then post it to the list for everyone's convenience. > On OpenBSD I've seen the same that you see, all normal chars garbled, > and all capitals are OK, also (again on OpenBSD) I've seen a bug that > made ALL chars capital, annoying, and that's also an old old bug, funny > that such things doesn't disapear with time and, in the case of Linux, > reimplementation. Probably comes from the design of certain things that all / many UNIXen have in common. > On OpenBSD the only thing that fixed it was a reboot, YMMV. Thanks to all the guys who suggested "reset" to me. # apropos reset reset (1) - terminal initialization Sven -- The UNIX Guru's view of sex: unzip ; strip ; touch ; finger mount ; fsck ; more ; yes ; umount sleep
