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Path: sserve!manuel!munnari.oz.au!spool.mu.edu!wupost!uunet!sun-barr!ames!claris!szebra!David.Fox From: David.Fox@Saigon.COM Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd Subject: tip sometimes causes wierd terminal behaviour until reboot Message-ID: <1992Oct1.000955.22592@Saigon.COM> Date: 1 Oct 92 00:09:55 GMT Organization: Station Zebra Corp, Sunnyvale CA Ph:408-739-1520 Lines: 12 I've begun to notice something strange with respect to tip. Depending on what sites or BBSes I call, the terminal will get screwed up (/dev/console) until I reboot the system. Sometimes it might be a continual blinking, others it will be vi not displaying messages - or the messages it does display in blue blinking mode, instead of the normal bright yellow, or other times it'll affect things like manual page displays or emacs. It seems to be something on the other end (depends on what strings the BBS program sends) that causes the problem. Apart from not calling :) isn't there a simple way to 'reset' dev/console so it's back to normal, without rebooting?