xterm/tty problems

[David A. Bandel]

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On Mon, 16 Dec 2002 22:35:29 -0600
begin  Alan Jackson <ajackson at oplnk.net> spewed forth:

> A colleague at work asked me the following, and I couldn't quite
> remember how to fix it. 
> 
> She logs into a Linux frontend for our beowolf cluster, using rlogin,
> and when she runs man, it leaves the xterm in a state such that
> everything is underlined after that. If she uses more, then everything
> is reverse video.
> 
> Where do you go to stop this from happening, and what do you put there?

This is probably in the configuration files for each of the different
programs.

> 
> This is a tty thing, isn't it. I understood those things, sort of, years
> ago, but I've forgotten almost all of it...

Try `reset`
and see if you get your screen back.

> 
> The front end (and the clusters too) are running some version of Redhat.

[I was about to comment on RH's buggy implementation of just about
everything -- deleted]

Ciao,

David A. Bandel
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