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From: jerry@ora.com (Jerry Peek)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.programmer,comp.unix.questions
Subject: Re: How to restore terminal after curses program crashes?
Summary: One-character command name might be better
Keywords: curses,cbreak,terminal
Message-ID: <1991Feb16.115209.15927@ora.com>
Date: 16 Feb 91 11:52:09 GMT
References: <1991Feb13.133332.22320@ousrvr.oulu.fi> <1991Feb14.192959.22939@dartvax.dartmouth.edu>
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In article <1991Feb14.192959.22939@dartvax.dartmouth.edu> andyb@coat.com (Andy Behrens) writes:
> clegg@tolsun.oulu.fi (Matthew Tran Clegg/VTT) writes:
> > I've been working on a program that uses the curses package and
> > cbreak mode.  Once in a while, a bug will cause the program to
> > crash (for example, with a segmentation fault).  
> 
> Typing
> 	ctrl-J reset ctrl-J
> should fix everything.

Once in a while I've had a session wedged bad enough that *each* character
I type is treated as a new command.  After this happened a few times,
I made the following symbolic link in my bin directory:

	ln -s /usr/ucb/reset ]

It makes a single-character command called "]" that does a "reset".
You should be able to use a single-character name for the other fixes
people have posted here, too.

--Jerry Peek, O'Reilly & Associates, Inc.   jerry@ora.com   +1 617 354-5800