Bug 186107 - Corrupted shell display
Summary: Corrupted shell display
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Status: CLOSED NOTABUG
Alias: None
Product: Fedora
Classification: Fedora
Component: bash
Version: 4
Hardware: i386
OS: Linux
medium
medium
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Assignee: Tim Waugh
QA Contact: Ben Levenson
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Blocks:
TreeView+ depends on / blocked
 
Reported: 2006-03-21 17:44 UTC by Shashank
Modified: 2007-11-30 22:11 UTC (History)
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Last Closed: 2006-03-22 12:00:57 UTC
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Description Shashank 2006-03-21 17:44:42 UTC
Description of problem:


Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable):


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 12:00:57 UTC
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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