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To: Balug-talk@balug.org
From: Rick Moen <rick@linuxmafia.com>
Subject: Re: [Balug-talk] Terminal scoll wierdness
Date: Wed, 31 Jul 2002 19:56:14 -0700
Quoting Roger Chrisman (rogerhc@pacbell.net):
> Is there a global terminal.config file that I may have
> corrupted and could somehow refresh?
When your terminal gets messed up, running /usr/bin/reset (typing blind,
if necessary) pretty much always works. I believe "tput reset" does the
same, if /usr/bin/reset isn't there.
Putting echo "ESC ]R" in a script file named "reset" (except using the
correct notation for ESC, which eludes me) would probably do it, too.
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To: Balug-talk@balug.org
From: Roger Chrisman <rogerhc@pacbell.net>
Subject: Re: [Balug-talk] Terminal scoll wierdness
Date: Wed, 31 Jul 2002 20:09:47 -0700
I received this private advice (thanks j.) and tried it:
Try the command:
reset
If that fails,
env TERM=linux
reset
> My guess:
> Is there a global terminal.config file that I may have
> corrupted and could somehow refresh?
/etc/termcap
It is probably NOT corrupted.
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However, I got:
roger@G4:~> reset
bash: marble: command not found
roger@G4:~> env TERM=linux
(here screenfuls of values describing my system)
roger@G4:~> reset
bash: marble: command not found
roger@G4:~> less /etc/termcap
(here a 17,426 line config file to marvel)
Weirder! -- starting up KDE fixes the 'b' (scroll back up)
problem in Konsol and also, after shutting down x-windows, in
my Terminal.. *until* I reboot the system. Rebooting the system
starts the problem ('b' wont scroll 'man' nor 'less' "back up")
again.
Any help appreciated...
Thanks!
Roger in SF
(this on my Quicksilver G4 running SuSE PPC Linux
7.3; terminal scrolling was working fine until this weirdness)
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To: Rick Moen <rick@linuxmafia.com>, Balug-talk@balug.org
From: Roger Chrisman <rogerhc@pacbell.net>
Subject: Re: [Balug-talk] Terminal scoll wierdness
Date: Wed, 31 Jul 2002 20:18:57 -0700
Rick wrote:
> When your terminal gets messed up, running /usr/bin/reset
(typing blind,
> if necessary) pretty much always works. I believe "tput
reset" does the
> same, if /usr/bin/reset isn't there.
Thanx Rick!
I typed just 'reset' and tada! fixed :-)
Roger
('b' working again to scroll 'back up' screen in 'man' and
'less')
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