Date: Tue, 30 Apr 2002 17:40:57 +0200 From: Christoph Kukulies <kuku@accms33.physik.RWTH-Aachen.DE> To: Terry Lambert <tlambert2@mindspring.com> Cc: ANdrei <andrei@abc.ro>, FS@FreeBSD.ORG, bugs@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: xterm & directory cat Message-ID: <20020430174057.A24695@gilberto.physik.rwth-aachen.de> In-Reply-To: <3CCEB71D.1AD1F911@mindspring.com>; from tlambert2@mindspring.com on Tue, Apr 30, 2002 at 08:24:13AM -0700 References: <3CCE8982.6A915F2B@abc.ro> <3CCEB71D.1AD1F911@mindspring.com>
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On Tue, Apr 30, 2002 at 08:24:13AM -0700, Terry Lambert wrote: > ANdrei wrote: > > and, if this > > is intended (for whatever purpose, but i can't think of any > > reasonable...), maybe others can verify that this crashes your xterm, if > > you run this command form a xterm under X... actually, it changes your > > character set (or whatever, i'm not much into how this works), but the > > effect is that you can't use your terminal any more (in a normal way :) > > Try cat'ing /bin/ls. > > It's not crashing your xterm, by the way, it's just sending it an > escape sequence that locks it up. > > > > hope i'm not missing smtg, and this really s a bug, and i'm posting to > > the right lists... > > feedback is appreciated, but please cc me, cause i'm not subscribed... > > The right list would have been -questions. > > After your xterm is "crashed", use control-right-mouse-button Pardon Sir, control-middle-mouse-button :-) > "full reset". Your xterm will "uncrash". > > -- Terry -- Chris Christoph P. U. Kukulies kukulies@rwth-aachen.de To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-bugs" in the body of the message
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