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From: jpr@jpradley.jpr.com (Jean-Pierre Radley)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.programmer,comp.unix.questions
Subject: Re: How to restore terminal after curses program crashes?
Message-ID: <1991Feb16.032319.2676@jpradley.jpr.com>
Date: 16 Feb 91 03:23:19 GMT
References: <1991Feb13.133332.22320@ousrvr.oulu.fi> <1991Feb13.191442.16443@cs.UAlberta.CA> <DANJ1.91Feb13170109@cbnewse.ATT.COM>
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In article <DANJ1.91Feb13170109@cbnewse.ATT.COM> Dan_Jacobson@ATT.COM writes:
>> Once in a while, a bug will cause the program to crash (for example,
>> with a segmentation fault).  This completely unhinges the terminal.
>
>Most of the time I find the terminal will respond to "command^J", so I
>my .profile I have:
>
>if test -t
>then
>stty="eval
>	stty sane;
>	stty
>	echo
>	echok
>	echoe
>	ixany
>	hupcl
>	icanon
>	icrnl
>	-ocrnl
>	onlcr
>	-onocr
>	erase ${erase_character-^?}
>	intr ^G
>	kill ^-
>	eof ^D
>	$stty_extra
>"
>yup, I just say
>$ $stty^J
>and everthing is comfy again.

I do about the same thing, but with somewhat less effort.

In .profile,
	STTY=`stty-g` export STTY

In .login,
	setenv STTY `stty-g`

Then, after a scrambled screen,
	$stty^J
restores my prior settings.


 Jean-Pierre Radley   NYC Public Unix   jpr@jpradley.jpr.com   CIS: 72160,1341