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From: brnstnd@kramden.acf.nyu.edu (Dan Bernstein)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.programmer
Subject: Re: How to restore terminal after curses program crashes?
Message-ID: <15369:Feb1520:38:1591@kramden.acf.nyu.edu>
Date: 15 Feb 91 20:38:15 GMT
References: <1991Feb13.133332.22320@ousrvr.oulu.fi> <436@bria>
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In article <436@bria> uunet!bria!mike writes:
> When your terminal is in a good mood, enter the following command:
> 	stty -g >$HOME/.stty

That's System V-specific, unfortunately.

A BSD solution is to run ``pty foo'' instead of ``foo'' so that whenever
foo exits (or stops) the tty modes will be restored properly with no
further effort on your part.

---Dan