Hi Claes, Wildman, etc, On Sat, 21 Feb 1998, Claes G Lindblad wrote:

Hi Jim, Wildman & all,

On Fri, 20 Feb 1998, The Wildman wrote:

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Now _I_ have a question for you: How can you switch terms if the keyboard is locked?

You have a very good point there, Wildman! :-)

Yes, he does. I guess that I should have said that the program lock up. Or at least I get to a point that I don't know what to do and the program will not respond. Normally at that point I do a "c-z" to put the program in the background and then I do a "kill 0". This will works most times, but about 100f the time I've got it so screwed up that all that will work is the change tty keys. All other keys seem to be dead. This was what I was meaning. So after reading this do you still think that doing "ps -a / kill <pid>" is the best thing or is there something better?

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... Just enter stty sane and you should be fine.

Unfortunately, that seems not to be sufficient in Europe, where characters above 0x7f are used, too. For this reason, there is a tougher sanity enforcement: /usr/bin/reset which, among other things perform an 'stty sane'.

So, if 'stty sane' will not bring your sanity back, try 'reset'.

Have fun! Claes in Lund, Sweden. -- www.algonet.se/~claesg --

Thanks for all your help! JIM -- To get out of this list, please send email to majordomo@suse.com with this text in its body: unsubscribe suse-linux-e