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Subject: RE: unable to type command into Cygwin after running 'tail'
Date: Thu, 2 Dec 2010 12:51:22 -0600
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Charles Wilson wrote on 2010-12-02:=20
> On 12/2/2010 1:27 PM, David Rothenberger wrote:
>> Illia Bobyr wrote:
>>> On 12/1/2010 8:53 PM, David Rothenberger wrote:
>>>> Try typing "reset" or "stty sane" (without the quotes) and pressing
>>>> Enter. You won't see what you're typing, but after the shell should
>>>> work again.
>>>=20
>>> Would you, please, elaborate on this a little bit?
>>> Maybe a link or a reference that explains why this is happening?
>>=20
>> I'm sorry, I can't. I don't know why it is happening. I just know how
>> to recover from it as a user.
>=20
> I've noticed that this misbehavior occurs more frequently these days:
> ctrl-c'ing some tasks (tail, less, maybe a few others) ends up with the
> terminal settings all scrogged up, and requires you to "blindly" type in
> 'reset' (or stty sane) to fix it.
>=20
> It's really rather annoying, but I don't know what exactly caused this
> to start happening.  It's possible it is unique to mintty, since I
> /think/ I started seeing this more frequently about the time I drifted
> to regularly using mintty more than rxvt-unicode...and I don't think I
> see this behavior in urxvt.

I've seen it ctrl-c'ing to get out of a tail in an xterm, so it isn't speci=
fic to mintty.

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Bryan Thrall
FlightSafety International
bryan DOT thrall AT flightsafety DOT com
=A0=20



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