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Date:      Tue, 29 May 2001 14:45:19 +0100 (BST)
From:      George Reid <greid@FreeBSD.org>
To:        David Banning <david@banning.com>
Cc:        questions@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: console type goes weird after program
Message-ID:  <Pine.BSF.4.21.0105291442170.4024-100000@sobek.openirc.co.uk>
In-Reply-To: <20010528213459.A2024@yahoo.com>

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On Mon, 28 May 2001, David Banning wrote:

> I am running a SCO program which seems to run fine.
> When I exit back to the shell my prompt does not behave properly
> at the console.
> 
> Each time I hit return there is no line feed. It looks like this;
> 
> bash-2.03$ bash-2.03$ bash-2.03$

This looks like a problem with a program that uses the curses library or a
variant thereof. It usually happens when a program terminates without
calling endwin() (IIRC, it's been a while since I did anything using
curses). In any case, typing 'reset' should reset your terminal to it's
normal state.

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