[ale] Gibberish on the terminal

[Eric Z. Ayers]

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Is this a serial terminal?  If so, does all settings match those when you type the following: stty -a </dev/ttyS(x) where X is the port num?


Chris Fowler
> Blake Sorensen wrote:
> > 
> > Allright, I was running a command, and it returned a lot of info but it was all in gibberish - it looked like the wrong character set, but just lowercase letters were affected.  Capitals were clearly readable, but everything else was boxes and lines and symbols.  I know there's a way to get this back to normal, but what is it?  And what causes this?
> 
> It's in a faq somewhere...  You type "echo ^V^C"  that's CRTL-V CRTL-C
> most modern distributions include a shell script called "reset" to do
> this for you.  
> As to why it happens...  it has to do with what the terminal thinks are
> escape sequences in the binary file it's reading.
> 
> 	-George
> 
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