From owner-freebsd-questions Wed Apr 5 15:36:46 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from hotmail.com (f106.law7.hotmail.com [216.33.237.106]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 3167F37B916 for ; Wed, 5 Apr 2000 15:36:39 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from jmd526@hotmail.com) Received: (qmail 15587 invoked by uid 0); 5 Apr 2000 22:36:34 -0000 Message-ID: <20000405223634.15586.qmail@hotmail.com> Received: from 209.220.228.2 by www.hotmail.com with HTTP; Wed, 05 Apr 2000 15:36:34 PDT X-Originating-IP: [209.220.228.2] From: "John Daniels" To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: strange output Date: Wed, 05 Apr 2000 18:36:34 EDT Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; format=flowed Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Hi: I downloaded adobe acrobat reader from the adobe site in tar.gz format. (It just occurred to me that I should have checked ports ... and I will before I continue.) I tried to untar it but forgot to add the "z" option, and of course tar complained that this was not a tar file, but lots of strange characters from the binary flew past the screen as it tried to figure this out. When it had finished, and I had realised my error, I found that when I did an "ls" command I got the following output: $ ls ??2p.n??g???xN????????e'?o???1+?d?o Desktop FreeBSD I??x??pyv?^???R?????????????R???????>????sn??N?????b6????\????k7?????f???W7?}???????~??l_??d?6?q?W? Linux Mail flash_linux.tar.gz linux-ar-405.tar.gz ????65????e{s u:r???"??$?Cm??|n(??5l6?V??I#???n??P???????}C??Y?,v]???????@K? I had earlier installed downloaded and installed the shockwave flash pluggin, and I believe I made the same mistake at that time, but I didn't get the same strange behavoir. I am running KDE, so I tried 1. opening a new terminal, 2. logging out of KDE and restarting X/KDE 3. logging out of my account 4. rebooting None of these changed the behavior. Other accounts on the system don't seem to be affected. Something was damaged or reset, but as a newbie I haven't a clue what it is or how to fix it. Thanks in advance to anyone who can help. John ______________________________________________________ Get Your Private, Free Email at http://www.hotmail.com To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message