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From: cjones@rupert.oscs.montana.edu (Chris Jones)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.netbsd.misc
Subject: how do I reset pcvt?
Date: 19 Aug 1996 20:21:38 GMT
Organization: montana.edu
Lines: 25
Message-ID: <4vaici$pns@netra.oscs.montana.edu>
NNTP-Posting-Host: rupert.oscs.montana.edu
Occasionally, when I'm using pcvt and telnetting around, my terminal
will receive whatever sequence of characters or odd events it is that
switches it into "Martian poetry mode" -- instead of getting lowercase
characters, I get IBM graphics characters. Does anybody know of a way
to reset my pcvt? Logging out doesn't do it, as my intuition says it
should. If there were a process associated with the darn thing, I
could just start randomly sending it signals, but it's in the kernel.
Also, has anybody else out there ever had pcvt exhibit strange
behavior with the 25th line? Occasionally, with no obvious cause,
it'll decide (as far as I can tell) that the 25th line is a different
window from the other 24, and the behavior of my terminal is
consequently pretty confused. When I'm in the shell, on the 25th
line, and I hit return or run a command, I lose any output and get a
new prompt; I think the other 24 lines scroll appropriately when this
happens, but I'm not sure.
TIA.
Chris
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Chris Jones cjones@rupert.oscs.montana.edu
Mad scientist in training...
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