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From: exukenc@exu.ericsson.com (Ken Corey)
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Beng Tang (plyjbyt@unicorn.nott.ac.uk) wrote:
: Hi all, i tried out some of those uuencoded animations and some worked
: but messed up my screen after they had finished, that such that lower
: case letters became random ascii characters (lines, finny currency
: signs, blocks etc) and i could not correct it except log out and log
: in again. Anyone know how to avoid this problem?
: I am catting them in VT100 in a Rainbow PAD, whatever that is.

Beng, if you're on a unix machine:

% cat        <- This will still look messed up
^[c          <- This is the escape key, and the lower-case letter c
^D           <- This is a control 'D', followed by a return character
%            <- Your terminal should just like when you turned it on.

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