Nicole Zimmerman wrote: > > > 1) you 'cat' a file you shouldn't in the console mode. before you know > > it everything on the commandline becomes an unreadable mess of ascii > > characters you didn't know you had. > > try `reset` perhaps. You might not see the characters in correct ascii, > but it should work. Maybe ctrl+l would work too, but I think reset is a > better bet. I think there is another way but I can't think of it off hand.
Running the `top' command works well too.
