How to restore terminal after curses program crashes?

[Dan Bernstein]

In article <449 at bria> uunet!bria!mike writes:
> In an article, gtisqr.uucp!roger (Roger Droz) writes:
> >How about simply:
> >	stty="stty `stty -g`"
> This won't work, because the ``stty -g'' will simply set the terminal to what
> it was already set to.

Double-quotes force immediate ` and $ interpretation.

> You need to preserve the terminal state _prior_ to
> it going insane.

He is.

---Dan