funny console mode ESIX

[Jon Gefaell]

In article <2206 at sud509.ed.ray.com> heiser at sud509.ed.ray.com (Bill Heiser - Unix Sys Admin) writes:
>This may actually be more of a Unix question than an i386 question,
>but the only place I've seen it happen is on my Esix system, so I'll
>ask this here.  The console on my Esix system sometimes gets into a
>funny state, particularly after using 'pcomm'.  It is in a state 
>where when you hit RETURN, you don't get a linefeed.  Text displays
>but each line gets overlaid by the next (no scrolling).  I played
>with the stty settings to no avail.  The one thing I found to
>clear it is to start Xwindows, then exit -- and it's back to normal.
>
>Anyone have any ideas on this little problem?
>

Yeah, I noticed this problem often after running elm on the console. I 
don't use the console any more, I use another machine over Ethernet to
get to the system. So, I never tried the following, but here's an earlier
note I archived that should shed some light on things for you...

From: seg at segpc.UUCP (Scott E. Garfinkle)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.i386
Subject: one-line console mode (was Re: Problem after using vi thru ~! shell...)
Message-ID: <952 at segpc.UUCP>
Date: 1 Aug 90 13:55:59 GMT
References: <836 at savant.UUCP>
Lines: 17

>From article <836 at savant.UUCP>, by jon at savant.UUCP (Jon Gefaell):
>>...after i saved, i only had the last line on the screen displaying
>>my new text. (ever view a file thru a one-line window?!:-).
>>
>>i had to shut down and reboot.

No, you didn't.  This appears to be some strange artifact of resetting
modes under terminfo on Esix.  (By the way, it still happens in Rev. D.)
Anyway, all you have to do is type ^[-c  (i.e. escape lower-case-c) at
the prompt and hit return.  This should fix you right up.  In the worst
case, get to a login prompt and do the same thing.  This clears whatever
weird terminal mode you were in.

By the way, the folks at Esix tech support would have been happy to
tell you this workaround (it's where I originally got it).

	-Scott Garfinkle


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