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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 22:38:04
Message-Id: 201002120035.37532.alan.mckinnon@gmail.com
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-user] Uh Oh!! Made the contents of my directory unreadable by Neil Bothwick
1 On Friday 12 February 2010 00:26:56 Neil Bothwick wrote:
2 > On Thu, 11 Feb 2010 22:32:44 +0200, Alan McKinnon wrote:
3 > > > In which case, running reset in the affected terminal should clear
4 > > > it.
5 > >
6 > > Every time I've tried to tell people to do that, they tell me they
7 > > can't do it because
8 > >
9 > > %#!*^
10 > >
11 > > obviously is not a valid command.
12 >
13 > It's not, if it were reset the second and fourth characters would be the
14 > same :P
15
16 Smartass :-)
17
18 You owe me a year's subscription from your employer for that wise-crack.
19 Postage paid by sender, naturally.
20
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23 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>