Re: Why does my program change the characters in my shell

From: Lorinczy Zsigmond (nospam_at_for.me)
Date: 06/26/03 

Date: Thu, 26 Jun 2003 06:46:02 +0200

Andrew Falanga wrote:
> Hello,
>
> I'd like to know what the typical reason for this is. I'm debugging a
> program I've written, and to make sure I'm using sscanf( ) and strcpy(
> ). However, when it gets done puting the data on stdout, the program is
> supposed to prompt me for action.
>
> What is displayed is really weird text. No English alphabetic
> characters, just right angled shapes and stuff. What normally alters
> the character set of stdout (don't know if I worded that correctly)?

Your terminal is confused or switched into character-graphics mode...
try "reset" command
You can trace your program with "strace"

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