Bug 186107 – Corrupted shell display

Bug 186107 - Corrupted shell display

Summary:	Corrupted shell display

Status:	CLOSED NOTABUG

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Product:	Fedora
Classification:	Fedora
Component:	bash (Show other bugs)
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Version:	4
Hardware:	i386 Linux

Priority	medium Severity medium
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Assigned To:	Tim Waugh
QA Contact:	Ben Levenson
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Reported:	2006-03-21 12:44 EST by Shashank
Modified:	2007-11-30 17:11 EST (History)
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Last Closed:	2006-03-22 07:00:57 EST
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Description Shashank 2006-03-21 12:44:42 EST

Description of problem:


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How reproducible:

Steps to Reproduce:
1. at shell prompt, type cat ./<binaryfile>
where <binaryfile> is the name of a binary file

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Actual results:
Display in the shell is all corrupted

Expected results:
Normal display


Additional info:

Comment 1 Tim Waugh 2006-03-22 07:00:57 EST

Writing binary to a terminal can have all sorts of results -- this is not a bash
problem, or a gnome-terminal problem.

Don't write random bytes to a terminal.  If you do, by accident, you can type
'reset; stty sane' to recover.

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