[GRASSLIST:9164] Re: major data loss bug with i.points!

[Gordon Keith]

On Sun, 20 Nov 2005 18:20, Hamish wrote:
> > I tried to control-c to kill  i.points, but my cursor would not
> > change. Everytime I did this the  grass prompt would repeat itself
> > without a carriage return such that it looked like:
> >
> > GRASS 6.1.cvs (xy):~ >     GRASS 6.1.cvs (xy):~ >      GRASS 6.1.cvs
> > (xy):~ >
> >
> > rather than
> >
> > GRASS 6.1.cvs (xy):~ >
> > GRASS 6.1.cvs (xy):~ >
> >
> > Carriage returns yielded the same behavior.  I decided things looked a
> > little screwy, so I typed exit.  Grass seemed to quit in a normal way
> > (D.m disappeared along with the terminal).
>
> I have found that this same kind of terminal corruption has happened to
> me from time to time over a ssh connection to another machine on the
> network.

The "reset" command (no arguments needed) will usually tidy up these problems.

Regards
Gordon

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Gordon Keith
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Marine Acoustics
CSIRO Marine and Atmospheric Research
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