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From: richard@pegasus.com (Richard Foulk)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.sysv386
Subject: Re: restore console display and vt status (was: Re: xfig with X386)
Message-ID: <1991May12.095552.2551@pegasus.com>
Date: 12 May 91 09:55:52 GMT
References: <1991Apr14.140430.23712@metro.ucc.su.OZ.AU> <1991May9.142835.3424@cti-software.nl>
Organization: Pegasus,  Honolulu
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>If a curses application dies, you can get back to a sane state
>by typing 'stty sane' or 'stty $oldsttysettings' if you've saved
>them.
>
>Has anyone written a program that does a similar thing to your
>console display and vt's ? I hate typing 'init 6' blindly.

Well it's a little gross, but running vpix usually does the trick.


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Richard Foulk		richard@pegasus.com