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

From: Alex Sisson (noogie_at_cyberspace.org)
Date: 06/27/03 

Date: 27 Jun 2003 05:11:17 -0700

Lorinczy Zsigmond <nospam@for.me> wrote in message news:<3EFA7A8A.2060406@for.me>...
> 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"

alternatively, you can play a fun game instead; cat /bin/ls and try
and ^C it before its finished cat'ing. sometimes if you're lucky, the
characters will be ok again.

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