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From: Alan McKinnon <alan.mckinnon@×××××.com>
To: gentoo-user@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Uh Oh!! Made the contents of my directory unreadable
Date: Thu, 11 Feb 2010 20:35:08
Message-Id: 201002112232.44689.alan.mckinnon@gmail.com
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-user] Uh Oh!! Made the contents of my directory unreadable by Neil Bothwick
1 On Thursday 11 February 2010 21:47:33 Neil Bothwick wrote:
2 > On Thu, 11 Feb 2010 20:18:29 +0200, Alan McKinnon wrote:
3 > > Switch to a text console (Ctrl-Alt-Fx) and ls things there, perhaps the
4 > > garbage dumped to the screen in your for simply upset the terminal
5 > > emulation.
6 >
7 > In which case, running reset in the affected terminal should clear it.
8
9 Every time I've tried to tell people to do that, they tell me they can't do it
10 because
11
12 %#!*^
13
14 obviously is not a valid command.
15
16 I've given up explaining :-)
17
18
19 --
20 alan dot mckinnon at gmail dot com

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Re: [gentoo-user] Uh Oh!! Made the contents of my directory unreadable Neil Bothwick <neil@××××××××××.uk>